Shameem
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Meaning
alternate transcription of Shamim, from Arabic shamim, 'fragrance, scent'
The story
Shameem is an alternate transcription of the Urdu name also written Shamim, says Behind the Name, which also notes the Bengali form; behind them stands the Arabic shamim, "fragrance, scent". The double-e spelling is one of several ways the same name reaches the Latin alphabet, and each transcription keeps its own line in any ledger that counts spellings. The published American record carries no Shameem line at all, in any decade, and Brazil's census returns nothing under this spelling either: the name's life is lived in South Asia and its diaspora, largely outside the records this site can count. A word for fragrance at the root, two scripts behind the Latin letters, and an honest blank where the American numbers would go.
How popular is Shameem around the world?
Shameem does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick. In Spain, 24 residents are named Shameem, ranked 27,217th among women, with a mean age of 49.7 years.
Shameem is on the official records of Spain.
United States
under 5 a year
Shameem does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Spain
1 in 1.9M
In Spain, 24 residents are named Shameem, ranked 27,217th among women, with a mean age of 49.7 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
England and Wales
last on record 2000
Shameem is not on the 2025 record for England and Wales, where spellings under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
South Australia
last on record 1998
Shameem is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown.
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The Shameem deep dive
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