Shamika

Where Shamika comes from

The dictionaries list Shamika as a given name — a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #6,006 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1981
    Peak, #554
    337 babies named Shamika — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1991
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,117.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes

No widely known Shamika turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.