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Shemara Wikramanayake is a director of Macquarie Infrastructure Company:

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http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromMktGuideIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedMktGuideId=1036311

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Shemika is an alternate spelling of Shamika which is frequently found in the African-American community.

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Sherece is just one of the many respellings of Charisse, which has been used as a given name in the USA ever since the dancer Cyd Charisse became famous.

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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001998/

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I can't find a use of Shemahlia as a person's given name on short notice, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been used.

Depends on your definition of "legit" :)

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I for myself do the "Google test" when such a question arises: Is it possible to find real people that lived or are living today with these names as their real given names? If yes, the name obviously "exists" and I see it as legit in some sense, if not, the case is as yet undecided, of course because not even Google shows the whole world.

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Shemara, Shemika and Sherece all pass this Google test, with real people turning up that have these names. Only Shemahlia fails.

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I am well aware that this approach might be much too pragmatic for many people...

I couldn't be certain about this because I haven't done the research. However, in my opinion I think they are all created names.

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She prefix 'She' or sometimes "Che" is quite popular at the moment.

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Shemara - is probably just Mara with the She prefix.
Shemika - just a different form of Tamika, I think.
Shemahlia - again, was probably just Mahlia / Malia with the "she" added.
Sherece - I actually this this is probably just an alternative spelling of Cherise.