Meaning not yet researched.
Shamir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,559 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,559 in 1983; #4,835 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shamir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,835 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #1,559.
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Shamir: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,559 in 1983 · most boys in one year: 49 (2016).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Shamir, making it the 4,835th most common boys’ name of the year, down 952 places from #3,883 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 29 boys named Shamir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,559, reached in 1983. The most boys given the name in a single year was 49, in 2016. For comparison, it was #2,801 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Shamir in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #4,244, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 20. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shamir in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 1,726 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 462 babies named Shamir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 334 US boys were named Shamir; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shamar (6,386 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Shamir 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 | — | — | 21 | #4,835 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,883 |
| 2023 | — | — | 22 | #4,720 |
| 2022 | — | — | 27 | #4,074 |
| 2021 | — | — | 40 | #3,067 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,968 |
| 2019 | — | — | 40 | #3,043 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,432 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,430 |
| 2016 | — | — | 49 | #2,583 |
| 2015 | — | — | 43 | #2,801 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,604 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,483 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,352 |
| 2011 | — | — | 44 | #2,735 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,397 | 49 | #2,546 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,742 | 34 | #3,321 |
| 2008 | — | — | 48 | #2,623 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,224 | 35 | #3,237 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,891 | 47 | #2,569 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,116 | 35 | #3,007 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,566 | 40 | #2,684 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,222 | 43 | #2,462 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,465 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,026 | 44 | #2,301 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,709 | 42 | #2,322 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,705 | 39 | #2,336 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,822 | 35 | #2,497 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,639 | 24 | #3,141 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,189 | 23 | #3,186 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,285 |
| 1994 | — | — | 31 | #2,490 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,348 | 32 | #2,389 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,435 | 39 | #2,035 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,876 | 43 | #1,860 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,775 | 27 | #2,544 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,880 | 37 | #1,987 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,263 | 36 | #1,878 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,244 | 29 | #2,109 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,440 | 12 | #3,847 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,438 | 15 | #3,196 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,456 | 24 | #2,224 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,091 | 39 | #1,559 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,650 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,818 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,124 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,193 |
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).