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Shemar

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Shemar is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. Its best rank was 594th, in 2001.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
120.00% of boys
Peak year
2001335 births
Best rank
#594in 2001
Since 1994
2,366people given the name
Babies named Shemar, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,366 boys have been named Shemar in the United States since 1994, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 335 births.

The name has all but left use: 12 births in 2024, against 335 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 51%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Shemar
1990s659
2000s1,218
2010s389
2020s100

In 2001, its biggest year

Shemar was the 594th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2001 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2001.

Names that rose and fell with Shemar

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.