Shemar

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Shemar is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name193 records spelled Shemar3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Śhëmãr

• French given name177 records spelled Shemar2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Guadeloupe

  Also written Shémar

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1994–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Shemar Mooreb. 1970USAmerican actor (born 1970)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 67 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shemar?

We estimate roughly 2.5 thousand people bear Shemar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Shemar have the most bearers?

We estimate about 2.0 thousand people bear Shemar in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled shemar.

Where is Shemar most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shemar is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Shemar compared with other names?

In Guyana, Shemar is the 111th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.

Is Shemar a male or female name?

Shemar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.