girls:
214 births since 1983
#5502 (4th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1975
#3182 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1975
#6073 (22nd percentile)
The name Shamir is the #6,073 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,676 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 21.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,182 (30.6% percentile) for all time with 1,462 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,502 (3.7% percentile) for all time with 214 births since 1983.
Shamir first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1983 for girls). Birth data for Shamir is available in 45 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 (45 years for boys and 24 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shamir has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Shamir were boys.
For boys, Shamir reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #722) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 24 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Shamir ranks #894 for boys (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 49.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shamir reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #787) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shamir".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shamir. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.2% confident that Shamir is pronounced as shuh-MIHR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-MEAR, at 37.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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