Meaning not yet researched.
Shamar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #552 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #552 in 2000; #5,811 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shamar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,811 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #552.
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Shamar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #552 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 383 (2000).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Shamar, making it the 5,811th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,486 places from #3,325 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 36 boys named Shamar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #552, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 383. For comparison, it was #1,433 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shamar in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 6,386 US babies have been given the name, 3.9% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,563 babies named Shamar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 659 US boys were named Shamar; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 101. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shamir (1,726 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shamarr, Shamere and Zhamir are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shamarr (304), Shamere (293), Zhamir (183), Shameer (133), Shahmir (53), Shamier (35), Shamaar (34), Shamire (22), Shamair (21), Shamare (18), Shamor (8), Shamore (6), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shamar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 16 | #5,811 |
| 2024 | — | — | 36 | #3,325 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,994 |
| 2022 | — | — | 64 | #2,265 |
| 2021 | — | — | 61 | #2,297 |
| 2020 | — | — | 69 | #2,063 |
| 2019 | — | — | 85 | #1,812 |
| 2018 | — | — | 101 | #1,623 |
| 2017 | — | — | 94 | #1,693 |
| 2016 | — | — | 91 | #1,719 |
| 2015 | — | — | 120 | #1,433 |
| 2014 | — | — | 101 | #1,575 |
| 2013 | — | — | 124 | #1,368 |
| 2012 | — | — | 140 | #1,263 |
| 2011 | — | — | 146 | #1,208 |
| 2010 | — | — | 189 | #1,030 |
| 2009 | — | — | 161 | #1,140 |
| 2008 | — | — | 219 | #929 |
| 2007 | — | — | 209 | #948 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,890 | 254 | #805 |
| 2005 | — | — | 235 | #809 |
| 2004 | — | — | 199 | #876 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,949 | 223 | #788 |
| 2002 | — | — | 292 | #650 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,233 | 363 | #570 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,708 | 383 | #552 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,143 | 295 | #618 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,965 | 238 | #701 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,873 | 183 | #807 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,576 | 161 | #865 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,415 | 110 | #1,079 |
| 1994 | — | — | 59 | #1,578 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,137 | 40 | #2,042 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,957 | 62 | #1,487 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,487 | 72 | #1,334 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,164 | 84 | #1,196 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,878 | 71 | #1,306 |
| 1988 | — | — | 48 | #1,548 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,257 | 50 | #1,463 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,507 | 67 | #1,160 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,167 | 53 | #1,329 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,207 | 58 | #1,212 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,089 | 61 | #1,163 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,017 | 76 | #1,046 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,721 | 78 | #1,034 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,482 | 63 | #1,152 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,894 | 51 | #1,302 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,116 | 42 | #1,450 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,769 | 25 | #1,998 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,229 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,279 | 24 | #1,991 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,920 | 9 | #3,781 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,993 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,046 | 7 | #4,371 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,132 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,446 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).