Samara
#320 for girls in 2025, 957 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 1,270 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 22,764since 1949
Samara over time
Rank among girls' names. Samara has never cracked the top 200 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #320 | 957 | — | |
| 2024 | #309 | 998 | — | |
| 2023 | #259 | 1,196 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #299 | 1,068 | — | |
| 2021 | #374 | 834 | — | |
| 2020 | #351 | 886 | — | |
| 2019 | #328 | 978 | — | |
| 2018 | #256 | 1,270 | — | |
| 2017 | #324 | 1,009 | — | |
| 2016 | #474 | 670 | — | |
| 2015 | #633 | 452 | — | |
| 2014 | #633 | 452 | — | |
| 2013 | #583 | 493 | — | |
| 2012 | #568 | 516 | — | |
| 2011 | #557 | 525 | — | |
| 2010 | #600 | 488 | — | |
| 2009 | #509 | 594 | — | |
| 2008 | #500 | 629 | — | |
| 2007 | #456 | 707 | — | |
| 2006 | #349 | 948 | — | |
| 2005 | #380 | 825 | — | |
| 2004 | #365 | 857 | — | |
| 2003 | #456 | 656 | — | |
| 2002 | #923 | 242 | — | |
| 2001 | #879 | 261 | — | |
| 2000 | #888 | 248 | — | |
| 1999 | #939 | 223 | — | |
| 1998 | #988 | 204 | — | |
| 1997 | #990 | 197 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,087 | 170 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,021 | 179 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,048 | 174 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,063 | 171 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,202 | 145 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,117 | 159 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,146 | 150 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,239 | 128 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,327 | 108 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,433 | 91 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,293 | 104 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,318 | 101 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,216 | 107 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,252 | 100 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,193 | 114 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,109 | 125 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,250 | 104 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,154 | 115 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,063 | 125 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,102 | 117 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,149 | 101 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,447 | 71 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,386 | 74 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,302 | 78 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,432 | 68 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,244 | 89 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,584 | 60 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,897 | 43 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,431 | 26 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,376 | 26 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,264 | 15 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | — | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Samara! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1954, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Samara is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#605 · 1 in 4,825
- Florida#708 · 1 in 6,010
- Pennsylvania#821 · 1 in 9,906
- California#1,017 · 1 in 10,072
- Ohio#1,036 · 1 in 14,450
Best ever in a state: #104 in Vermont, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #605 | 21 | 1 in 4,825 |
| Florida | #708 | 9 | 1 in 6,010 |
| Pennsylvania | #821 | 7 | 1 in 9,906 |
| California | #1,017 | 18 | 1 in 10,072 |
| Ohio | #1,036 | 5 | 1 in 14,450 |
| Texas | #1,059 | 11 | 1 in 11,248 |
| Illinois | #1,255 | 5 | 1 in 15,030 |
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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 Samara
- 11 spots since 2024 (#309 → #320)
- 31 spots since 2020 (#351 → #320)
- 313 spots since 2015 (#633 → #320)
- Biggest jump: 467 spots in 2003 (#923 → #456)
- Biggest drop: 107 spots in 2007 (#349 → #456)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2018 at #256 (1,270 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,339 girls born in 2018 were named Samara (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,679 girls born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 30.1% of all girls named Samara (6,853) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 68 | #3,778 (1955) | #4,877 |
| 1960s | 180 | #1,897 (1969) | #3,430 |
| 1970s | 898 | #1,063 (1978) | #1,286 |
| 1980s | 1,082 | #1,109 (1981) | #1,263 |
| 1990s | 1,772 | #939 (1999) | #1,060 |
| 2000s | 5,967 | #349 (2006) | #571 |
| 2010s | 6,853 | #256 (2018) | #496 |
| 2020s | 5,939 | #259 (2023) | #319 |
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.
Samara in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 13,344 of them was named Samara, which outranked 90.9% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,102Louisa126
- #1,102Nikita126
- #1,102Tai126
- #1,109Samara125
- #1,109Deann125
- #1,109Julissa125
- #1,109Roseann125
- #1,114Angelic124
- #1,114Ayanna124
- #1,114Bonita124
Tied with 4 names at #1,109; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.