Shamona
Shademaneh is a village in Tariq ol Eslam Rural District, in the Central District of Nahavand County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 129, in 31 families.
Meaning & Origin of Shamona
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Shademaneh is a village in Tariq ol Eslam Rural District, in the Central District of Nahavand County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 129, in 31 families.
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The Story of Shamona
Shamona first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1971, with 10 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1978: 17 births, good for #4,079 nationwide. About 46% of every Shamona on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Shamona last appeared in the published SSA data in 1996, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 220 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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About the name Shamona
Shamona is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1971 and has accumulated 220 births in the dataset. Shamona's peak popularity came in 1978 when it ranked #4,079. Use the chart and map above to compare Shamona's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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