Shamya
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 170 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,172since 1983
Shamya over time
Rank among girls' names. Shamya has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 |
| 2013 | #3,367 | 47 |
| 2012 | #3,169 | 52 |
| 2011 | #2,511 | 72 |
| 2010 | #2,237 | 86 |
| 2009 | #1,989 | 104 |
| 2008 | #1,605 | 141 |
| 2007 | #1,635 | 136 |
| 2006 | #1,473 | 150 |
| 2005 | #1,281 | 174 |
| 2004 | #1,264 | 170 |
| 2003 | #1,267 | 165 |
| 2002 | #1,510 | 125 |
| 2001 | #1,331 | 144 |
| 2000 | #1,329 | 142 |
| 1999 | #1,349 | 131 |
| 1998 | #2,338 | 60 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
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| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shamya! It came in at #10,275, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1989, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Shamya is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#370 · 1 in 1,600
- Mississippi#401 · 1 in 1,560
- Louisiana#549 · 1 in 2,528
- Alabama#621 · 1 in 2,998
- North Carolina#700 · 1 in 3,698
Best ever in a state: #244 in South Carolina, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #370 | 12 | 1 in 1,600 |
| Mississippi | #401 | 8 | 1 in 1,560 |
| Louisiana | #549 | 8 | 1 in 2,528 |
| Alabama | #621 | 7 | 1 in 2,998 |
| North Carolina | #700 | 13 | 1 in 3,698 |
| Georgia | #758 | 13 | 1 in 4,063 |
| Virginia | #764 | 9 | 1 in 4,180 |
| Tennessee | #1,055 | 5 | 1 in 6,439 |
| Florida | #1,185 | 11 | 1 in 7,826 |
| Ohio | #1,248 | 6 | 1 in 9,398 |
| Michigan | #1,255 | 5 | 1 in 8,892 |
| Illinois | #1,741 | 5 | 1 in 13,245 |
| Texas | #2,316 | 8 | 1 in 20,965 |
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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 Shamya
- 1,465 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #14,942)
- 4,692 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #14,942)
- 9,484 spots since 2015 (#5,458 → #14,942)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2004 at #1,264 (170 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,620 girls born in 2005 were named Shamya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,264 in 2004, was only 1 in 10,801 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 66.8% of all girls named Shamya (1,451) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 15 | #10,275 (1983) | #10,621 |
| 1990s | 275 | #1,349 (1999) | #7,414 |
| 2000s | 1,451 | #1,264 (2004) | #1,468 |
| 2010s | 383 | #2,237 (2010) | #4,978 |
| 2020s | 48 | #9,562 (2021) | #11,513 |
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.
Shamya in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 13,411 of them was named Shamya, which outranked 92.2% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,597Lucie142
- #1,597Maxine142
- #1,597Rosie142
- #1,605Shamya141
- #1,605Aiden141
- #1,605Betty141
- #1,605Carsyn141
- #1,620Anaiah140
- #1,620Annamarie140
- #1,620Farah140
Tied with 14 names at #1,605; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.