Sama
#1,219 for girls in 2025, 186 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 186 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,813since 1983
Sama over time
Rank among girls' names. Sama has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,219 | 186 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,374 | 165 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,762 | 116 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,710 | 122 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,801 | 112 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,170 | 83 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,961 | 99 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,275 | 80 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,976 | 100 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,247 | 85 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,773 | 63 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,371 | 77 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,706 | 64 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,407 | 47 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,949 | 26 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | — | |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | — | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 | — | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | — | |
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| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | — | |
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| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | — | |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sama! It came in at #10,275, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sama is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#529 · 1 in 2,235
- Illinois#764 · 1 in 3,745
- New York#797 · 1 in 3,930
- Maryland#881 · 1 in 4,165
- New Jersey#1,058 · 1 in 6,046
Best ever in a state: #508 in Michigan, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | #529 | 16 | 1 in 2,235 |
| Illinois | #764 | 12 | 1 in 3,745 |
| New York | #797 | 20 | 1 in 3,930 |
| Maryland | #881 | 5 | 1 in 4,165 |
| New Jersey | #1,058 | 6 | 1 in 6,046 |
| Washington | #1,081 | 5 | 1 in 5,816 |
| California | #1,184 | 22 | 1 in 7,530 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,234 | 6 | 1 in 7,722 |
| Texas | #1,505 | 16 | 1 in 10,210 |
| Florida | #1,676 | 7 | 1 in 12,329 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sama
- 155 spots since 2024 (#1,374 → #1,219)
- 951 spots since 2020 (#2,170 → #1,219)
- 1,554 spots since 2015 (#2,773 → #1,219)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2025 at #1,219 (186 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,641 girls born in 2025 were named Sama (0.01%)
- 43.2% of all girls named Sama (784) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 11 | #10,275 (1983) | #10,331 |
| 1990s | 54 | #5,583 (1998) | #9,754 |
| 2000s | 242 | #4,370 (2009) | #5,647 |
| 2010s | 722 | #1,961 (2019) | #2,592 |
| 2020s | 784 | #1,219 (2025) | #1,673 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sama in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 9,819 of them was named Sama, which outranked 92.2% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).