Shomari
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shomari is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: type of a mango, long and thin.
- USUnited States1 in 383K◐
- TZTanzania1 in 43K
- BMBermuda1 in 53K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈878 ●
- Sources
- 158 ●
- 1 in 188K ◐
across 3 countries
6.9K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
type of a mango, long and thin
Sources 1
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 869 | 5.7K rec. | 1 in 383K | 869 | Shomari | 158 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 310 | 218 rec. | — | — | Shomari | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 198 | 138 rec. | — | — | Shomari | 33 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #948 | 112 | 573 rec. | — | — | Shomari | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | 55 | 51 rec. | — | — | Shomari | 12 |
| KE Kenya | — | 39 | 0 rec. | — | listed | Shomari | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | — | 35 | 35 rec. | — | — | Shomari | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | 23 | 30 rec. | — | — | Shomari | 10 |
| BM Bermuda | #323 | 12 | 12 rec. | — | — | Shomari | 5 |
| RU Russia | — | 11 | 12 rec. | — | — | Shomari | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 4 rec. | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | Shomari | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Shomari | 2 |
Roughly 869 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 383K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English6.4K70%
- Swahili7288%
- Hindi5866%
- Spanish3584%
- 2192%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 6,407 | 70% |
| Swahili | 728 | 8% |
| Hindi | 586 | 6% |
| Spanish | 358 | 4% |
| 219 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Shomari is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Forceful.
as a nameThe African book of names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1973 | 12 |
| 1974 | 24 |
| 1975 | 27 |
| 1976 | 26 |
| 1977 | 37 |
| 1978 | 37 |
| 1979 | 28 |
| 1980 | 33 |
| 1981 | 40 |
| 1982 | 32 |
| 1983 | 26 |
| 1984 | 20 |
| 1985 | 20 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 27 |
| 1988 | 20 |
| 1989 | 27 |
| 1990 | 29 |
| 1991 | 24 |
| 1992 | 55 |
| 1993 | 48 |
| 1994 | 42 |
| 1995 | 40 |
| 1996 | 34 |
| 1997 | 33 |
| 1998 | 30 |
| 1999 | 24 |
| 2000 | 24 |
| 2001 | 28 |
| 2002 | 29 |
| 2003 | 31 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2005 | 22 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 52 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Shomari Williamsb. 1985USCanadian football player
- Shomari Figuresb. 1985USAmerican politician (born 1985)
- Shomari Loveb. 1992USactor
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●
Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 869 | #12,828 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 88 | #12,828 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 55 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 42 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 33 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 110 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shomari?
- We estimate roughly 878 people bear Shomari (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shomari have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 869 people bear Shomari in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled shomari.
- How common is Shomari compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Shomari is the 323rd most common given name of 1,057 given names recorded there.
- Is Shomari a male or female name?
- Shomari 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.
- What does the name Shomari mean?
- Recorded meaning: type of a mango, long and thin
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shomari” — the 323rd most common given name in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.