Shamar
Shamar is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 36 births. Its best rank was 552nd, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 360.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2000383 births
- Best rank
- #552in 2000
- Since 1972
- 6,369people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,120 boys have been named Shamar in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 383 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 41%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 249 girls have also been given it, 3.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2000, its biggest year
Shamar was the 552nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Shamar
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Latrellpeak 1999
- Dalenpeak 2001
- Andrupeak 2001
- Varunpeak 2004
- Iainpeak 2003
- Niklaspeak 2000
- Kejuanpeak 2003
- Isaccpeak 2003
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.