Shamaya
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 57 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 833since 1980
Shamaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Shamaya has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 |
| 2007 | #3,376 | 49 |
| 2006 | #2,978 | 57 |
| 2005 | #3,257 | 47 |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 |
| 2003 | #3,085 | 48 |
| 2002 | #3,889 | 33 |
| 2001 | #3,703 | 35 |
| 2000 | #3,404 | 39 |
| 1999 | #3,718 | 32 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 |
| 1996 | #5,531 | 17 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shamaya! It came in at #7,418, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Shamaya is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#752 · 1 in 4,076
- Florida#1,789 · 1 in 14,854
- New York#2,195 · 1 in 19,305
Best ever in a state: #495 in South Carolina, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #752 | 5 | 1 in 4,076 |
| Florida | #1,789 | 6 | 1 in 14,854 |
| New York | #2,195 | 5 | 1 in 19,305 |
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See more about Shamaya
- 1,465 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #14,942)
- 146 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #14,942)
- 6,934 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #14,942)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2006 at #2,978 (57 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 33,355 girls born in 2006 were named Shamaya (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 49.0% of all girls named Shamaya (408) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 74 | #5,545 (1989) | #8,004 |
| 1990s | 172 | #3,718 (1999) | #5,973 |
| 2000s | 408 | #2,978 (2006) | #3,732 |
| 2010s | 152 | #5,207 (2011) | #8,469 |
| 2020s | 27 | #9,056 (2022) | #13,141 |
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.
Shamaya in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 33,355 of them was named Shamaya, which outranked 85.2% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,940Tenley58
- #2,940Vada58
- #2,940Zaylee58
- #2,978Shamaya57
- #2,978Alizae57
- #2,978Althea57
- #2,978Alyanna57
- #3,017Adrionna56
- #3,017Alexius56
- #3,017Analy56
Tied with 38 names at #2,978; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.