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Shamara
How to Pronounce Shamara
Pronounced shuh-MAR-uh /ʃəˈmɑr.ə/Medium
Meaning: Shamara pairs the Sha- prefix with the -mara sound shared by Tamara and Samara. Tamara comes from Hebrew for 'date palm' and Samara from a word for 'guardian' or the winged seed. On those readings Shamara echoes 'date palm'; its chief appeal is the melodic modern blend.Low
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U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Shamara joins the fashionable Sha- prefix to the -mara sound of Tamara and Samara. Tamara is Hebrew for 'date palm,' a symbol of grace, and Samara relates to 'guardian.' Coined in the later twentieth century, Shamara belongs to the inventive naming of the 1980s, and on the Tamara reading it echoes that 'date palm' sense while standing as a fresh blend.
The name crested around 1989 and stayed uncommon, borne by roughly seventeen hundred girls across a long run that flickered on into the 2020s. A Shamara named at the peak is now in her mid-thirties, a younger millennial. It reads as a melodic late-century coinage rather than a name currently on the rise.
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What does the name Shamara mean?
Shamara blends the Sha- prefix with the -mara of Tamara ('date palm') and Samara; it echoes that 'date palm' sense.
How do you pronounce Shamara?
It's said shuh-MAR-uh /ʃəˈmɑr.ə/ — three syllables, stress on the second.
Is Shamara a boy or girl name?
Shamara is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Shamara?
Shamara was an uncommon coinage that crested in the late nineteen-eighties and has been rare since.