Shameka
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #14,959
- Peak · girls
- 1980 · 452 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,191since 1971
Shameka over time
Rank among girls' names. Shameka has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 |
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| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 |
| 1998 | #3,116 | 40 |
| 1997 | #2,622 | 48 |
| 1996 | #2,041 | 68 |
| 1995 | #1,684 | 87 |
| 1994 | #1,433 | 111 |
| 1993 | #1,178 | 148 |
| 1992 | #1,010 | 186 |
| 1991 | #1,024 | 180 |
| 1990 | #987 | 187 |
| 1989 | #880 | 209 |
| 1988 | #720 | 259 |
| 1987 | #773 | 231 |
| 1986 | #632 | 292 |
| 1985 | #647 | 286 |
| 1984 | #510 | 385 |
| 1983 | #477 | 417 |
| 1982 | #503 | 402 |
| 1981 | #489 | 421 |
| 1980 | #470 | 452 |
| 1979 | #511 | 387 |
| 1978 | #531 | 345 |
| 1977 | #587 | 294 |
| 1976 | #662 | 231 |
| 1975 | #828 | 164 |
| 1974 | #1,239 | 88 |
| 1973 | #1,286 | 80 |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shameka! It came in at #5,136, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2008–2009, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Shameka is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#246 · 1 in 1,553
- Louisiana#261 · 1 in 1,462
- Mississippi#300 · 1 in 1,663
- Georgia#300 · 1 in 1,960
- South Carolina#311 · 1 in 1,817
Best ever in a state: #105 in Mississippi, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #246 | 24 | 1 in 1,553 |
| Louisiana | #261 | 18 | 1 in 1,462 |
| Georgia | #300 | 20 | 1 in 1,960 |
| Mississippi | #300 | 8 | 1 in 1,663 |
| South Carolina | #311 | 10 | 1 in 1,817 |
| Alabama | #330 | 10 | 1 in 2,154 |
| Florida | #460 | 20 | 1 in 3,471 |
| Virginia | #481 | 9 | 1 in 3,860 |
| Oklahoma | #496 | 5 | 1 in 3,584 |
| Maryland | #535 | 6 | 1 in 4,252 |
| Michigan | #679 | 9 | 1 in 6,441 |
| New York | #727 | 18 | 1 in 6,215 |
| New Jersey | #756 | 6 | 1 in 7,262 |
| Illinois | #795 | 10 | 1 in 7,258 |
| Texas | #984 | 14 | 1 in 9,205 |
| California | #1,194 | 17 | 1 in 12,654 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shameka
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2010
- Biggest jump: 411 spots in 1975 (#1,239 → #828)
- Biggest drop: 160 spots in 1989 (#720 → #880)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1980 at #470 (452 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1975–1990
- Highest: 1 in 3,673 girls born in 1980 were named Shameka (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 296,266 girls born in 2010 (0.00%)
- 54.2% of all girls named Shameka (3,354) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 1,626 | #511 (1979) | #1,486 |
| 1980s | 3,354 | #470 (1980) | #610 |
| 1990s | 1,085 | #987 (1990) | #1,899 |
| 2000s | 120 | #4,688 (2001) | #8,106 |
| 2010s | 6 | #14,959 (2010) | #14,959 |
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.
Shameka in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 7,527 of them was named Shameka, which outranked 94.2% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.