Samaya
#1,747 for girls in 2025, 116 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 221 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,164since 1980
Samaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Samaya 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 | #1,747 | 116 |
| 2024 | #1,980 | 99 |
| 2023 | #2,195 | 86 |
| 2022 | #2,319 | 80 |
| 2021 | #2,007 | 96 |
| 2020 | #2,115 | 86 |
| 2019 | #2,249 | 81 |
| 2018 | #2,145 | 88 |
| 2017 | #1,744 | 121 |
| 2016 | #1,719 | 123 |
| 2015 | #1,778 | 117 |
| 2014 | #1,818 | 112 |
| 2013 | #1,529 | 143 |
| 2012 | #1,214 | 200 |
| 2011 | #1,160 | 211 |
| 2010 | #1,720 | 121 |
| 2009 | #1,349 | 177 |
| 2008 | #1,274 | 195 |
| 2007 | #1,157 | 221 |
| 2006 | #1,359 | 170 |
| 2005 | #1,838 | 106 |
| 2004 | #2,030 | 90 |
| 2003 | #2,243 | 76 |
| 2002 | #2,228 | 74 |
| 2001 | #3,256 | 42 |
| 2000 | #3,271 | 41 |
| 1999 | #4,088 | 28 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 |
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| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Samaya! It came in at #10,392, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1993, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Samaya is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#603 · 1 in 3,003
- North Carolina#1,242 · 1 in 7,564
- Florida#1,283 · 1 in 8,596
- Michigan#1,303 · 1 in 8,253
- California#1,353 · 1 in 9,788
Best ever in a state: #387 in Mississippi, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #603 | 12 | 1 in 3,003 |
| North Carolina | #1,242 | 6 | 1 in 7,564 |
| Florida | #1,283 | 10 | 1 in 8,596 |
| Michigan | #1,303 | 5 | 1 in 8,253 |
| California | #1,353 | 20 | 1 in 9,788 |
| Illinois | #1,400 | 6 | 1 in 9,257 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,416 | 5 | 1 in 10,228 |
| New York | #1,460 | 9 | 1 in 9,777 |
| Ohio | #1,460 | 5 | 1 in 10,355 |
| Texas | #2,812 | 6 | 1 in 26,645 |
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See more about Samaya
- 233 spots since 2024 (#1,980 → #1,747)
- 368 spots since 2020 (#2,115 → #1,747)
- 31 spots since 2015 (#1,778 → #1,747)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2007 at #1,157 (221 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,337 girls born in 2011 were named Samaya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,856 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,157 in 2007, was only 1 in 8,700 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.6% of all girls named Samaya (1,317) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #10,392 (1980) | #10,392 |
| 1990s | 87 | #4,088 (1999) | #7,619 |
| 2000s | 1,192 | #1,157 (2007) | #2,001 |
| 2010s | 1,317 | #1,160 (2011) | #1,708 |
| 2020s | 563 | #1,747 (2025) | #2,061 |
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.
Samaya in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 14,268 of them was named Samaya, which outranked 90.5% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,738Layna122
- #1,738Wilhelmina122
- #1,738Yusra122
- #1,744Samaya121
- #1,744Cosette121
- #1,744Kyah121
- #1,744Maiya121
- #1,752Anabel120
- #1,752Areli120
- #1,752Baila120
Tied with 7 names at #1,744; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.