Samar
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #2,304 for boys in 2025, 60 births
Given to boys 53.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 92 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,278since 1973
Samar over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,661 | 29 | #2,304 | 60 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | #2,288 | 62 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #1,782 | 92 |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 | #1,823 | 85 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 | #2,094 | 67 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 | #1,937 | 76 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 | #2,189 | 62 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 | #2,230 | 60 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | #2,594 | 46 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 | #3,115 | 36 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 | #3,453 | 31 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #2,846 | 37 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #4,621 | 26 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,573 | 33 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #4,125 | 26 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Samar! It came in at #4,505, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Samar is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#741 · 1 in 5,088
- Virginia#854 · 1 in 5,484
- California#940 · 1 in 7,880
- Pennsylvania#1,249 · 1 in 10,707
- North Carolina#1,256 · 1 in 10,192
Best ever in a state: #449 in Connecticut, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #741 | 8 | 1 in 5,088 |
| Virginia | #854 | 7 | 1 in 5,484 |
| California | #940 | 24 | 1 in 7,880 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,249 | 5 | 1 in 10,707 |
| North Carolina | #1,256 | 5 | 1 in 10,192 |
| Illinois | #1,283 | 5 | 1 in 10,352 |
| Texas | #2,593 | 5 | 1 in 35,742 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Samar
- 16 spots since 2024 (#2,288 → #2,304)
- 210 spots since 2020 (#2,094 → #2,304)
- 115 spots since 2015 (#2,189 → #2,304)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2022 at #1,782 (92 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,978 boys born in 2022 were named Samar (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,468 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.4% of all boys named Samar (555) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2010, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 26 | #4,505 (1973) | #4,634 |
| 1980s | 32 | #4,234 (1982) | #5,713 |
| 1990s | 50 | #5,466 (1998) | #7,002 |
| 2000s | 193 | #2,846 (2005) | #5,211 |
| 2010s | 555 | #1,937 (2018) | #2,495 |
| 2020s | 422 | #1,782 (2022) | #2,118 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Samar in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 68,339 of them was named Samar, which outranked 70.1% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,172Zehra25
- #5,172Zurielle25
- #5,172Zuriyah25
- #5,309Samar24
- #5,309Aadhini24
- #5,309Aamirah24
- #5,309Adrianne24
- #5,465Adanna23
- #5,465Ainoa23
- #5,465Aissata23
Tied with 155 names at #5,309; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 18,978 of them was named Samar, which outranked 87.6% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,771Paulo93
- #1,771Taysom93
- #1,771Yuri93
- #1,782Samar92
- #1,782Avrohom92
- #1,782Braylin92
- #1,782Dashiell92
- #1,792Deegan91
- #1,792Haze91
- #1,792Jakhari91
Tied with 9 names at #1,782; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.