Sameer

Where Sameer comes from

Transliteration of Hindi समीर (samīr).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sameer
  • Sanskrit
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #3,673 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2001
    Peak, #1,135
    123 babies named Sameer — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,186.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Sanskrit.
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Sameer hasn't yet.

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.