Meaning not yet researched.
Shemar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #594 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #594 in 2001; #8,148 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shemar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,148 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #594.
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Shemar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #594 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 335 (2001).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Shemar, making it the 8,148th most common boys’ name of the year, down 946 places from #7,202 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 12 boys named Shemar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #594, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 335. For comparison, it was #2,595 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shemar in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 13 babies. In all, 2,382 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,224 babies named Shemar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 229 US boys were named Shemar; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Shymir and Shemarr 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shymir (85), Shemarr (11).
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 Shemar 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 | — | — | 10 | #8,148 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,202 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,881 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #6,103 |
| 2021 | — | — | 27 | #3,987 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,639 |
| 2019 | — | — | 18 | #5,310 |
| 2018 | — | — | 36 | #3,224 |
| 2017 | — | — | 35 | #3,301 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,668 |
| 2015 | — | — | 48 | #2,595 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,743 |
| 2013 | — | — | 41 | #2,838 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,786 |
| 2011 | — | — | 50 | #2,500 |
| 2010 | — | — | 59 | #2,233 |
| 2009 | — | — | 34 | #3,322 |
| 2008 | — | — | 45 | #2,747 |
| 2007 | — | — | 79 | #1,844 |
| 2006 | — | — | 79 | #1,766 |
| 2005 | — | — | 77 | #1,736 |
| 2004 | — | — | 61 | #1,987 |
| 2003 | — | — | 79 | #1,609 |
| 2002 | — | — | 163 | #972 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,061 | 335 | #594 |
| 2000 | — | — | 266 | #672 |
| 1999 | — | — | 179 | #849 |
| 1998 | — | — | 152 | #930 |
| 1997 | — | — | 119 | #1,074 |
| 1996 | — | — | 146 | #906 |
| 1995 | — | — | 50 | #1,776 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,754 |
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).