first name
SHAMEKA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,884 people named Shameka, 94.2% reported their origin as Black, 2.6% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Shameka peaked in 1980, when 452 babies got the name.
At least 6,191 babies have been given the name since 1971. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Shameka by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,060. The largest share of babies named Shameka, 62.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Shameka is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shameka has been most common in Mississippi (4×), South Carolina (3.7×), and Georgia (3.4×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.15×).
5,270 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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3 other first names also have 4,884 people.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shameka, most common first.
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