Shamiah is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Shamiah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Shamiah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Shamiah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Shamiah ranks at #10,029. That means there are 10,028 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shamiah.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shamiah. Girls named Shamiah have made themselves scarce. But some parents have recently gotten a taste for it: At No. 3,179 Shamiah ranked higher than ever in 2004. By comparison, there have been 109 years in which the first name Shamiah has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Shamiah only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shamiah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Shamiah is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 38 Americans in total bear this name. And these 38 women are located in only five states: Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New York and South Carolina (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Shamiah and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Shamiah in relation to it’s female population is Florida. And yet even there, only one in 377,710 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Shamiah.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Shamiah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Shamiah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shamiah, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shamiah
Shamiah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
M
I
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
H
A
M
I
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shamiah sounds like this:
