first name
SHAMIKA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,018 people named Shamika, 90% reported their origin as Black, 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 3% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Shamika peaked in 1981, when 337 babies got the name.
At least 5,067 babies have been given the name since 1971. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Shamika by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,187. The largest share of babies named Shamika, 64.5%, 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 Shamika is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shamika has been most common in District of Columbia (2.7×), Georgia (2.6×), and South Carolina (2.5×), and least common in Indiana (0.38×).
4,056 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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