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The first name 
Shamya

Shamya is a female first name.

Shamya – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Shamya in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Shamya in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Shamya by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Shamya ranks at #4,924. That means there are 4,923 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 Shamya.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Shamya

Shamya -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Shamya did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Shamya seemed to be more popular than ever in 2004. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,186, 170 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Shamya, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Shamya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Shamya in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Shamya a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #9,733 - with a total of 8 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Shamya -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Shamya are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Shamya in 20 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Shamya live in South Carolina – here, one in 18,505 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 116,797 will turn around if you call her first name Shamya.

Shamya has 6 letters 
and begins with an S

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 six letters, the name Shamya 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.

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.

Other names with 
S, h, a, m, y and a

If you take all the letters in the name Shamya – S, h, a, m, y and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Shamay or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Shamya

If your name is Shamya 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...

This is how you spell the name Shamya

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shamya, you can simply say:

Sun

Hat

Apple

Mouse

Yoyo

Apple

This is how the name Shamya is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Shamya in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Shamya

Shamya

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Shamya

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Shamya is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
H
A
M
Y
A

Have you ever waved the name Shamya

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
Y
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Shamya sounds like this: