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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| 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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First appearance
1975
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.
Where Shamir is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Shamir in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Shamir
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,782 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #4,707)
Rise & fade · boys
8 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1983 at #1,534 (39 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 38,729
- 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
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 27.1% of all boys named Shamir (409) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- 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.
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