Shamekia

Last seen for girls in 2001 at #11,020

Peak · girls
1981 · 74 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
947
since 1973

Shamekia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Shamekia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201973peak #1,580, 1981girls
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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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2001#11,0208
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1998#12,4266
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1996#9,5818
1995#5,67716
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1992#4,84920
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1990#3,22734
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1980#1,58373
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1974#5,01111
1973#7,4356
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five girls were named Shamekia! It came in at #7,435, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Shamekia is popular in 1973

No state had 5 or more girls named Shamekia in 1973, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Shamekia
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2001
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 1981 at #1,580 (74 births)
  • Births halved by 1987, 6 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 22,541
  • Highest: 1 in 22,541 girls born in 1981 were named Shamekia (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 225,078 girls born in 2001 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 57.9% of all girls named Shamekia (548) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s238#1,729 (1978)#3,434
1980s548#1,580 (1981)#2,104
1990s153#3,097 (1991)#6,256
2000s8#11,020 (2001)#11,020

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.

Shamekia in 1973

girls
#7,435
6 births · 1 in 243,035 girls

Top girls' names in 1973

  1. #1Jennifer62,448
  2. #2Amy26,962
  3. #3Michelle26,935
  4. #4Kimberly23,531
  5. #5Lisa22,677
  6. #6Melissa22,479
  7. #7Angela20,898
  8. #8Heather19,347
  9. #9Stephanie17,263
  10. #10Rebecca14,868
  11. #7,435Shamekia6
More about 1973

girls

1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 243,035 of them was named Shamekia, which outranked 24.2% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Shamekia
  1. #6,666Yumi7
  2. #6,666Zanthia7
  3. #6,666Zenda7
  4. #7,435Shamekia6
  5. #7,435Abagail6
  6. #7,435Adabel6
  7. #7,435Adalia6
  8. #8,423Aarti5
  9. #8,423Abbigail5
  10. #8,423Abi5

Tied with 987 names at #7,435; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1972
Risers
  1. ↑ 4,091Cicely#4,793 → #702
  2. ↑ 2,295Aubrey#3,177 → #882
  3. ↑ 1,847Nyree#2,680 → #833
  4. ↑ 1,533Danyell#2,523 → #990
  5. ↑ 1,496Vonetta#2,311 → #815
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,814Camisha#815 → #2,629
  2. ↓ 470Andra#904 → #1,374
  3. ↓ 416Cherilyn#823 → #1,239
  4. ↓ 284Keena#848 → #1,132
  5. ↓ 281Nicolle#734 → #1,015

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

See the top 100 for 1973 →