Shamyah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Shamyah by the numbers
Shamyah was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 25 babies in 2005, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Shamyah
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 Shamyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Shamyah
Names that are said the same way as Shamyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Shamayagod has heard13 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Shamyah
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