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Shametra
How to Pronounce Shametra
Pronounced shuh-MEE-truh /ʃəˈmiː.trə/Low
Meaning: Shametra is a modern American coinage that joins the popular Sha- prefix with a -metra ending, echoing Demetra (a form of Demetria) and sitting near coinages like Shameka. It was made for its smooth, three-beat sound rather than a fixed meaning, so the honest reading is a crafted, melodic name in a well-worn late-twentieth-century pattern.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Shametra joins the fashionable Sha- opening to a -metra ending that echoes Demetra, alongside cousins like Shameka. We read it honestly as a sound-first name: the parts are familiar building blocks, and the appeal was a smooth, individual rhythm rather than a dictionary meaning, even as it brushes the classical Demeter sound.
Shametra was never common, given to only about fourteen girls a year around 1979 before fading. A woman named Shametra is in her mid-forties today, born in the peak years of the Sha- creations that flourished in African American naming.
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What does the name Shametra mean?
It is a modern American coinage joining the prefix Sha- with a -metra ending, in the family of Demetra and Shameka; sound over a fixed meaning.
How do you pronounce Shametra?
It is said shuh-MEE-truh /ʃəˈmiː.trə/ - three syllables, stress on the middle.
Is Shametra a boy or girl name?
Shametra is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Shametra?
It was always rare, given to only about fourteen girls a year at its peak in the late nineteen-seventies.