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Shamon

About 799 American babies have been named Shamon since 1969, most of them around 1998. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 770 Shamons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Shamon boys named Shamon

By the numbers

Total US births
799
Estimated living today
770
Median age today
30
Peak year
1998
Best rank
2,552nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1969
Girls / boys
140 / 659

How old the living Shamons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 799 babies given the name since 1969, about 770 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Shamon is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1998

The most popular boys’ names the year Shamon peaked:

All the names of 1998

Related names

Shamon against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.