Shamaria

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
7
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Shamaria by the numbers

Shamaria was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 41 babies in 2000, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Shamaria

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 Shamaria. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Samariawatchpost or guard height95 in the US (2017)
  • Shamari23 in the US (2017)
  • Shamara9 in the US (2017)
  • Samaraprotected by god; or from samaria1,002 in the US (2017)
  • Samariahwatched by god; a form of Samaria or Samaria-related names19 in the US (2017)
  • Shamayagod has heard13 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Shamaria

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