Shamir is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Shamir is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Shamir. In the SmartGenius ranking, Shamir is #2,796 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shamir.
In fact, the name Shamir hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Shamir wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1983, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,142, 53 parents chose it in 1983 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Shamir, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shamir was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Shamir a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 3,477, for a total of 27 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Shamir seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Shamir. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 621 Americans who bear this name. And these 621 men and boys named Shamir live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey and New York. In the other 41 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Shamir lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Shamir and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Shamir relative to its male population is New Jersey. And even there, only one male in 29,516 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Shamir.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Shamir is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Shamir 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 Shamir, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shamir
Shamir
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
M
I
R
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
R
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. Shamir sounds like this:
