Shamon
Masculine
Shamon is given to both — 659 boys and 140 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Shamon is recorded for sons and for daughters, with rather more daughters, and nothing settles whether it respells an Irish river name or was built from a free front and a free ending. The English word it most resembles is Siberian, and it arrived by a route almost nobody guesses.
How old is the name Shamon?
Shamon first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Shamon alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 600 people named Shamon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shamon most popular?
Shamon peaked in 1978, reaching #2473 nationally. See the whole 1978 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Shamon
Shaman is not a general anthropological term that happens to fit Siberia. It is a Siberian word. The Evenki šamán named a specific religious specialist among the Tungusic peoples, and Russian explorers and exiles in Siberia picked it up in the seventeenth century; German and English scholars took it from Russian, and anthropology then generalized it to cover ritual practitioners on every continent. Whether that generalization is useful has been argued over for a century, since it groups together people whose work has very little in common beyond a trance. A minority view traces the Evenki word back further, to a Buddhist term for a monk borrowed through Chinese; most specialists treat it as native Tungusic and the question is open.
Meaningnot established
Not established
It may respell the Irish river name used as a personal name, or join the Sha- front to the -mon ending in the way American naming does. The record holds the spelling and nothing else.
Pronouncing Shamon
shuh-MON
Two syllables with the stress at the back. Families reading it from the river name say SHAN-un instead, which is a different word entirely.
Nicknames for Shamon
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
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 199833 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2473reached in 1978
- Change vs 2022
- −16.7%5 in 2023, from 6
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.
Shamons among us
people named Shamon 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
Shamon 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
- Back stress gives a two-syllable name a firm landing.
- It works for a child of either sex, which the record confirms.
- Six letters with no silent ones make it simple to spell aloud.
- Shannon, Shamone and Shammon will all be written for it.
- The two readings stress it differently, so it is said two ways.
- Most children with this spelling are boys, but a real minority are girls; either may be taken for the other.
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Shamon
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Frequently asked
- How many Shamons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Shamon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shamon in 2025?
- Shamon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Shamon with classmates?
- Shamon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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