Shamara
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 9 babies a year in the US.
Shamara by the numbers
Shamara was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 66 babies in 1989, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Shamara
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Shamara. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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