Samarah
#2,957 for girls in 2025, 56 births
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 120 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,051since 1972
Samarah over time
Rank among girls' names. Samarah 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,957 | 56 |
| 2024 | #2,413 | 75 |
| 2023 | #2,517 | 70 |
| 2022 | #2,388 | 77 |
| 2021 | #2,440 | 73 |
| 2020 | #2,597 | 65 |
| 2019 | #2,170 | 85 |
| 2018 | #2,207 | 84 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 |
| 2016 | #2,308 | 82 |
| 2015 | #3,024 | 56 |
| 2014 | #3,369 | 47 |
| 2013 | #2,484 | 72 |
| 2012 | #2,568 | 70 |
| 2011 | #2,103 | 91 |
| 2010 | #2,803 | 62 |
| 2009 | #1,989 | 104 |
| 2008 | #2,462 | 77 |
| 2007 | #1,908 | 108 |
| 2006 | #1,734 | 120 |
| 2005 | #1,855 | 104 |
| 2004 | #1,835 | 103 |
| 2003 | #2,125 | 82 |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
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| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
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| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
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| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Samarah! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Samarah is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#1,022 · 1 in 5,987
- Florida#1,345 · 1 in 9,454
- North Carolina#1,396 · 1 in 9,002
- New York#1,568 · 1 in 10,836
- California#1,765 · 1 in 14,575
Best ever in a state: #738 in Arizona, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #1,022 | 6 | 1 in 5,987 |
| Florida | #1,345 | 9 | 1 in 9,454 |
| North Carolina | #1,396 | 5 | 1 in 9,002 |
| New York | #1,568 | 8 | 1 in 10,836 |
| California | #1,765 | 13 | 1 in 14,575 |
| Texas | #2,119 | 9 | 1 in 17,657 |
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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 Samarah
- 544 spots since 2024 (#2,413 → #2,957)
- 360 spots since 2020 (#2,597 → #2,957)
- 67 spots since 2015 (#3,024 → #2,957)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2006 at #1,734 (120 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,843 girls born in 2006 were named Samarah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,701 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.8% of all girls named Samarah (776) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #8,292 (1972) | #8,427 |
| 1980s | 11 | #9,095 (1980) | #10,729 |
| 1990s | 113 | #5,713 (1994) | #7,353 |
| 2000s | 776 | #1,734 (2006) | #2,810 |
| 2010s | 724 | #2,103 (2011) | #2,544 |
| 2020s | 416 | #2,388 (2022) | #2,552 |
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.
Samarah in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 20,251 of them was named Samarah, which outranked 87.8% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,190Safiya85
- #2,190Sumaya85
- #2,190Tanvi85
- #2,207Samarah84
- #2,207Ahuva84
- #2,207Ameena84
- #2,207Justine84
- #2,217Aaradhya83
- #2,217Ailany83
- #2,217Analy83
Tied with 9 names at #2,207; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.