Samatha

Where Samatha comes from

From Sanskrit समाधान (samādhāna) (śamatha) meaning "tranquility" and "concentration" (referring to Buddhist meditation) or "equality".
— Wiktionary's entry for Samatha
  • Sanskrit
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    First appearance
    #4,636 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Peak, #780
    248 babies named Samatha — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,376.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Sanskrit.
Namesakes

No widely known Samatha turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.