Shamyra
Feminine
Shamyra is an American coinage with no documented source. Its ending is shared with a desert city that spent a few years running a very large piece of the Roman world, under a ruler who is still argued about.
How old is the name Shamyra?
Shamyra first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Shamyra alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 800 people named Shamyra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shamyra most popular?
Shamyra peaked in 1987, reaching #3424 nationally. See the whole 1987 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Shamyra
Palmyra was an oasis on the caravan route between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, rich on transit trade, with its own dialect, its own gods and a colonnaded main street a kilometer long. In the third century its queen, Zenobia, took advantage of Roman weakness and annexed Egypt and most of Asia Minor, ruling a third of the empire for a few years before the emperor Aurelian defeated her and, by most accounts, paraded her in gold chains and then let her retire to a villa in Italy. The city never recovered. A great deal of what survived until recently was destroyed within the last decade, which is worth saying plainly about a place so often described as timeless.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source has been documented. The name belongs to a family of American coinages of the same period and shape, and nothing in the record explains this particular arrangement.
Pronouncing Shamyra
shuh-MY-ruh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. shuh-MEER-uh is also heard and the spelling does not decide.
Nicknames for Shamyra
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
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 200736 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3424reached in 1987
- Change vs 2016
- +16.7%7 in 2017, 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.
Shamyras among us
people named Shamyra 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
Shamyra 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
- Myra comes off the back of it as a short form and is established in its own right.
- Three syllables with a strong middle stress carry well and are easy to remember.
- It is distinctive on a page without containing a difficult sound.
- Two readings of the middle vowel are in circulation and the spelling settles neither.
- Shamira, Samira and Shamyrah are all in the record and will be confused with it.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has nothing to answer with.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shamyras 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 Shamyra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shamyra in 2025?
- Shamyra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Shamyra with classmates?
- Shamyra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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