Shamari

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #6,199
Given to girls 55.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
2000 · 80 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,063
since 1981

Shamari over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201981peak #2,055, 2000peak #2,349, 1998girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025
2024#12,1617#6,19914
2023#9,61610#6,51713
2022#15,3065#6,82812
2021#11,1468#6,03214
2020#12,1427#4,85519
2019#7,34215#6,10414
2018#8,61712#7,61710
2017#8,29913#7,09511
2016#7,60215#4,32723
2015#6,97717#4,89019
2014#6,98717#6,30713
2013#7,74815#4,62120
2012#4,95728#4,53321
2011#6,14821#6,57812
2010#4,49432#3,89426
2009#4,67731#3,33233
2008#3,31650#3,42132
2007#3,32950#2,97439
2006#3,41447#4,37021
2005#2,93555#3,52827
2004#3,26546#2,59941
2003#3,13147#2,78035
2002#2,97649#2,68535
2001#2,54060#3,14328
2000#2,05580#2,47638
1999#2,70351#3,83419
1998#4,36625#2,34937
1997#2,97740#2,82327
1996#4,58322#2,67928
1995#4,21724#3,30320
1994#6,67213#2,68527
1993#2,93840#3,50118
1992#2,29557#3,92015
1991#6,97612#4,47612
1990#8,5019#5,8238
1989#8,0379#5,1659
1988#5,89513#6,4266
1987#11,3255
1986#6,7215
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1984#4,9737
1983#6,2385
1982#5,0037
1981#9,1106#3,60111
1980#5,5256
1979#4,8427
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First appearance
1981

The first year at least five girls were named Shamari! It came in at #9,110, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1982–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1981
  • Peaked 2000 at #2,055 (80 births)
  • Births halved by 2009, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 22,700
  • Highest: 1 in 22,700 girls born in 2000 were named Shamari (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 231,456 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 48.4% of all girls named Shamari (515) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2020
  • Mostly girls until 2019, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s33#5,895 (1988)#8,592
1990s293#2,295 (1992)#4,623
2000s515#2,055 (2000)#3,164
2010s185#4,494 (2010)#6,917
2020s37#9,616 (2023)#12,074

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Shamari in 1981

girls
#9,110
6 births · 1 in 278,010 girls
boys
#3,601
11 births · 1 in 162,834 boys

Top girls' names in 1981

  1. #1Jennifer57,046
  2. #2Jessica42,531
  3. #3Amanda34,372
  4. #4Sarah28,175
  5. #5Melissa28,005
  6. #6Amy20,345
  7. #7Nicole20,310
  8. #8Stephanie20,212
  9. #9Elizabeth20,168
  10. #10Heather17,946
  11. #9,110Shamari6

Top boys' names in 1981

  1. #1Michael68,750
  2. #2Christopher50,221
  3. #3Matthew43,330
  4. #4Jason41,927
  5. #5David40,629
  6. #6Joshua39,024
  7. #7James38,283
  8. #8John34,868
  9. #9Robert34,395
  10. #10Daniel30,985
  11. #3,601Shamari11
More about 1981

girls

1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 278,010 of them was named Shamari, which outranked 25.3% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Shamari
  1. #8,128Zenovia7
  2. #8,128Zephyr7
  3. #8,128Zora7
  4. #9,110Shamari6
  5. #9,110Aaisha6
  6. #9,110Abbra6
  7. #9,110Abel6
  8. #10,411Abegail5
  9. #10,411Abigal5
  10. #10,411Abiola5

Tied with 1,300 names at #9,110; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1980
Risers
  1. 3,850Tashina#4,743#893
  2. 2,742Krystle#3,215#473
  3. 1,800Tierra#2,342#542
  4. 1,398Martine#2,189#791
  5. 999Nereida#1,981#982
Fallers
  1. 764Kylene#990#1,754
  2. 607Renada#708#1,315
  3. 560Ashanti#822#1,382
  4. 399Renata#336#735
  5. 395Tracee#959#1,354

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 162,834 of them was named Shamari, which outranked 50.6% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Shamari
  1. #3,412Wilber12
  2. #3,412Yan12
  3. #3,412Zeth12
  4. #3,601Shamari11
  5. #3,601Aamir11
  6. #3,601Abdulrahman11
  7. #3,601Abrahan11
  8. #3,858Adin10
  9. #3,858Aditya10
  10. #3,858Adrienne10

Tied with 256 names at #3,601; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1980
Risers
  1. 1,321Marchello#2,162#841
  2. 1,104Skylar#2,058#954
  3. 816Kellen#1,432#616
  4. 499Marcello#1,291#792
  5. 456Tyrel#1,089#633
Fallers
  1. 306Kenyatta#871#1,177
  2. 284Seneca#718#1,002
  3. 247Kimberly#989#1,236
  4. 216Chadd#927#1,143
  5. 214Levar#911#1,125

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1981