Sameer
#2,108 for boys in 2025, 69 births
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 123 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,414since 1968
Sameer over time
Rank among boys' names. Sameer 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,108 | 69 |
| 2024 | #2,098 | 71 |
| 2023 | #2,387 | 57 |
| 2022 | #2,379 | 59 |
| 2021 | #2,060 | 71 |
| 2020 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2019 | #2,656 | 48 |
| 2018 | #2,029 | 71 |
| 2017 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2016 | #2,110 | 66 |
| 2015 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | #1,730 | 87 |
| 2013 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #1,891 | 76 |
| 2011 | #1,635 | 93 |
| 2010 | #1,868 | 77 |
| 2009 | #1,797 | 83 |
| 2008 | #1,692 | 90 |
| 2007 | #1,681 | 90 |
| 2006 | #1,289 | 129 |
| 2005 | #1,170 | 136 |
| 2004 | #1,267 | 119 |
| 2003 | #1,310 | 106 |
| 2002 | #1,258 | 108 |
| 2001 | #1,135 | 123 |
| 2000 | #1,300 | 99 |
| 1999 | #1,436 | 81 |
| 1998 | #1,871 | 52 |
| 1997 | #1,571 | 65 |
| 1996 | #1,705 | 55 |
| 1995 | #1,603 | 57 |
| 1994 | #1,434 | 67 |
| 1993 | #1,577 | 57 |
| 1992 | #1,697 | 50 |
| 1991 | #1,768 | 45 |
| 1990 | #1,870 | 41 |
| 1989 | #1,658 | 47 |
| 1988 | #1,525 | 48 |
| 1987 | #1,938 | 32 |
| 1986 | #1,645 | 39 |
| 1985 | #2,019 | 28 |
| 1984 | #1,690 | 34 |
| 1983 | #1,314 | 50 |
| 1982 | #1,415 | 45 |
| 1981 | #1,479 | 42 |
| 1980 | #1,695 | 34 |
| 1979 | #1,570 | 37 |
| 1978 | #1,570 | 36 |
| 1977 | #1,571 | 35 |
| 1976 | #1,572 | 34 |
| 1975 | #1,948 | 24 |
| 1974 | #1,934 | 23 |
| 1973 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | #2,323 | 16 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sameer! It came in at #3,673, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1971, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Sameer is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#478 · 1 in 3,734
- Maryland#604 · 1 in 4,797
- Pennsylvania#719 · 1 in 7,087
- Illinois#770 · 1 in 7,014
- Virginia#881 · 1 in 8,613
Best ever in a state: #427 in New Jersey, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #478 | 29 | 1 in 3,734 |
| Maryland | #604 | 6 | 1 in 4,797 |
| Pennsylvania | #719 | 9 | 1 in 7,087 |
| Illinois | #770 | 11 | 1 in 7,014 |
| Virginia | #881 | 5 | 1 in 8,613 |
| California | #885 | 23 | 1 in 11,051 |
| New Jersey | #943 | 5 | 1 in 9,387 |
| Georgia | #1,172 | 5 | 1 in 11,943 |
| Texas | #1,510 | 8 | 1 in 22,639 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Sameer
- 10 spots since 2024 (#2,098 → #2,108)
- 59 spots since 2020 (#2,167 → #2,108)
- 238 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #2,108)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2001 at #1,135 (123 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,686 boys born in 2005 were named Sameer (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,135 in 2001, was only 1 in 15,796 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.7% of all boys named Sameer (1,083) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 11 | #3,673 (1968) | #4,039 |
| 1970s | 236 | #1,570 (1979) | #2,290 |
| 1980s | 399 | #1,314 (1983) | #1,638 |
| 1990s | 570 | #1,434 (1994) | #1,653 |
| 2000s | 1,083 | #1,135 (2001) | #1,390 |
| 2010s | 724 | #1,635 (2011) | #2,000 |
| 2020s | 391 | #2,060 (2021) | #2,200 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sameer in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 14,686 of them was named Sameer, which outranked 91.2% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,162Judson137
- #1,162Obed137
- #1,162Wilmer137
- #1,170Sameer136
- #1,170Anson136
- #1,170Dhruv136
- #1,170Ervin136
- #1,182Abdiel135
- #1,182Alton135
- #1,182Eden135
Tied with 11 names at #1,170; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.