Shamir
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #16,992 · #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
Given to boys 87.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 39 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,512since 1975
Shamir over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,707 | 21 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,793 | 29 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,610 | 22 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,995 | 27 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,021 | 40 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,925 | 40 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,993 | 40 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,373 | 33 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,378 | 33 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,551 | 49 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,766 | 43 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,532 | 30 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,405 | 31 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,297 | 33 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,699 | 44 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,511 | 49 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2008 | — | #2,583 | 48 | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #2,542 | 47 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #2,428 | 43 |
| 2002 | — | #2,428 | 41 | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #2,277 | 44 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #2,298 | 42 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #2,450 | 35 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #3,064 | 24 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #3,107 | 23 |
| 1995 | — | #3,191 | 21 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,444 | 31 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #2,002 | 39 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #2,488 | 27 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #1,953 | 37 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #1,849 | 36 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 | #2,057 | 29 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #3,070 | 15 |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 | #1,534 | 39 |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shamir! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Shamir
- 914 spots since 2024 (#3,793 → #4,707)
- 1,782 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #4,707)
- 1,941 spots since 2015 (#2,766 → #4,707)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1983 at #1,534 (39 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 38,729 boys born in 2016 were named Shamir (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,534 in 1983, was only 1 in 45,963 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.1% of all boys named Shamir (409) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,464 (1975) | #5,464 |
| 1980s | 220 | #1,534 (1983) | #2,961 |
| 1990s | 314 | #1,823 (1991) | #2,522 |
| 2000s | 409 | #2,277 (2001) | #2,662 |
| 2010s | 385 | #2,511 (2010) | #3,051 |
| 2020s | 179 | #2,925 (2020) | #3,842 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shamir in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 197,873 of them was named Shamir, which outranked 44.6% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,111Zarina10
- #7,111Zoua10
- #7,111Zoya10
- #7,691Shamir9
- #7,691Abeni9
- #7,691Abiola9
- #7,691Adonica9
- #8,391Aarin8
- #8,391Aarti8
- #8,391Abriel8
Tied with 699 names at #7,691; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 53,175 of them was named Shamir, which outranked 78.2% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,815Von37
- #1,815Willy37
- #1,815Zachry37
- #1,849Shamir36
- #1,849Aharon36
- #1,849Aj36
- #1,849Allison36
- #1,879Amin35
- #1,879Ashraf35
- #1,879Brando35
Tied with 29 names at #1,849; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.