Shameika
Feminine
Shameika is one of six spellings of a single sound, and it is the latest of them to arrive — the eik in the middle is the last variant the family produced before it stopped growing.
How old is the name Shameika?
Shameika first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Shameika alive today was born around 1983, making them about 42 years old. About 800 people named Shameika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shameika most popular?
Shameika peaked in 1982, reaching #1608 nationally. See the whole 1982 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Shameika
The spellings of a made name arrive in a predictable order. The simplest comes first, because the first parents to use it write it the plainest way; then come the variants that add a letter to the stressed syllable; then the ones that substitute a fashionable letter; then, last, the rarest and most elaborate, chosen by parents who want a version nobody else has and who are working with a family that has already used up the obvious options. A spelling with an unusual vowel pair in the stressed syllable is almost always late. It can be dated on that basis alone, and the record bears it out.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language. The family it belongs to was assembled in America from interchangeable pieces, and no spelling of it is more original than any other because there was never an original to copy.
Pronouncing Shameika
shuh-MEE-kuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The ei pair is said as a long e.
Nicknames for Shameika
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most girls named
- 198272 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1608reached in 1982
- Change vs 1996
- 0.0%5 in 1998, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shameikas among us
people named Shameika are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Shameika sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is read correctly on sight in spite of the vowel pair.
- The middle stress carries well.
- It shortens to a name that works alone.
- Shameka, Shamika and Shameeka are all in the record and hers will be written as one of them.
- The spelling is the rarest of the family's versions.
- There is no meaning to pass on.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shameikas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Shameika are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shameika in 2025?
- Shameika is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Shameika with classmates?
- Shameika will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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