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Shemar

#8,144 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shemar has been given to 2,382 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #8,144 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 335 recorded.

Babies named Shemar, 2025

1 in 332,000

Shemar over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shemar: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shemar means

Shemar is a given name.

The naming story behind Shemar

Wikidata records Shemar as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q140329459, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,376 boys were recorded with the name Shemar between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 335 in 2001; its best national rank was #594 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,636 in 2020 to #8,144 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,594 in 2015 to #8,144 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Shemar between 2001 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2001; its best national rank was #15,054 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shemar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,144
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shemar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shemar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shemars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shemar was born before 2001 — so the typical Shemar is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,376
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (1,218).

Is Shemar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−947
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,508
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,550
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.21×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.0%
Peak was 2001 (335)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#594
2001

Spellings of Shemar

Shemar is not the most common spelling — Sherman is, with 50.4% against Shemar's 3.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Shemar is used

Across 1910–2025, Shemar was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 89,128 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 25,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 33,333
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 50,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8New York1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shemar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shemar around the world

Where Shemar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    2009–2014
    #5,525
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1994–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Shemar

People whose public names include Shemar, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shemar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,144
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,508
Best rank ever
#594
2001
Peak year
2001
335 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,376
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,054
2001
Peak year
2001
6 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shemar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Shemar

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shemar, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Shemar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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