Shemar
Last seen for girls in 2001 at #13,521 · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 335 births
- Debut · boys
- 13 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,376since 1994
Shemar over time
Rank among boys' names. Shemar has never cracked the top 500 here.
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 | — | #7,679 | 10 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,832 | 12 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,666 | 16 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,874 | 15 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,912 | 27 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,570 | 30 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,153 | 18 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,171 | 36 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,249 | 35 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,596 | 30 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,565 | 48 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,705 | 44 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,804 | 41 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,714 | 28 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,478 | 50 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,212 | 59 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,274 | 34 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,717 | 45 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,830 | 79 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,758 | 79 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,725 | 77 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,974 | 61 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,591 | 79 | |
| 2002 | — | #970 | 163 | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #594 | 335 |
| 2000 | — | #671 | 266 | |
| 1999 | — | #844 | 179 | |
| 1998 | — | #927 | 152 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,065 | 119 | |
| 1996 | — | #902 | 146 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,758 | 50 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,537 | 13 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shemar! It came in at #4,537, and was given to 13 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 13 boys a year got the name.
Where Shemar is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#261 · 1 in 1,404
- Maryland#364 · 1 in 2,612
- Virginia#519 · 1 in 4,877
- North Carolina#523 · 1 in 4,588
- Louisiana#535 · 1 in 3,812
Best ever in a state: #192 in Mississippi, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #261 | 14 | 1 in 1,404 |
| Maryland | #364 | 11 | 1 in 2,612 |
| Virginia | #519 | 8 | 1 in 4,877 |
| North Carolina | #523 | 10 | 1 in 4,588 |
| Louisiana | #535 | 7 | 1 in 3,812 |
| New York | #566 | 22 | 1 in 5,397 |
| New Jersey | #618 | 7 | 1 in 6,950 |
| Florida | #649 | 13 | 1 in 6,530 |
| Ohio | #762 | 6 | 1 in 11,720 |
| Michigan | #832 | 5 | 1 in 11,917 |
| Georgia | #884 | 5 | 1 in 9,691 |
| Texas | #1,563 | 5 | 1 in 31,170 |
| California | #1,839 | 6 | 1 in 42,258 |
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See more about Shemar
- 847 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #7,679)
- 4,109 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #7,679)
- 5,114 spots since 2015 (#2,565 → #7,679)
- Biggest jump: 856 spots in 1996 (#1,758 → #902)
- Biggest drop: 621 spots in 2003 (#970 → #1,591)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2001 at #594 (335 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1998–2002
- Highest: 1 in 5,800 boys born in 2001 were named Shemar (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 51.3% of all boys named Shemar (1,218) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 659 | #844 (1999) | #1,672 |
| 2000s | 1,218 | #594 (2001) | #1,710 |
| 2010s | 389 | #2,212 (2010) | #3,165 |
| 2020s | 110 | #3,570 (2020) | #5,589 |
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.
Shemar in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 12,975 of them was named Shemar, which outranked 91.4% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #897Lincoln149
- #897Simeon149
- #897Tayler149
- #902Shemar146
- #902Akeem146
- #902Denver146
- #902Luciano146
- #908Andreas145
- #908Barrett145
- #908Eliseo145
Tied with 5 names at #902; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.