Samia
#2,458 for girls in 2025, 72 births
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 133 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,580since 1951
Samia over time
Rank among girls' names. Samia 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 | #2,458 | 72 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 66 |
| 2023 | #2,730 | 63 |
| 2022 | #2,604 | 67 |
| 2021 | #2,154 | 87 |
| 2020 | #2,115 | 86 |
| 2019 | #1,961 | 99 |
| 2018 | #1,997 | 98 |
| 2017 | #1,761 | 119 |
| 2016 | #1,693 | 126 |
| 2015 | #1,758 | 119 |
| 2014 | #2,391 | 76 |
| 2013 | #2,083 | 92 |
| 2012 | #2,315 | 81 |
| 2011 | #2,238 | 84 |
| 2010 | #1,886 | 107 |
| 2009 | #1,989 | 104 |
| 2008 | #1,762 | 125 |
| 2007 | #1,655 | 134 |
| 2006 | #1,552 | 140 |
| 2005 | #1,539 | 133 |
| 2004 | #1,795 | 106 |
| 2003 | #1,641 | 117 |
| 2002 | #1,984 | 88 |
| 2001 | #2,115 | 78 |
| 2000 | #2,258 | 69 |
| 1999 | #1,940 | 81 |
| 1998 | #2,083 | 70 |
| 1997 | #2,511 | 51 |
| 1996 | #2,966 | 40 |
| 1995 | #2,977 | 39 |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 |
| 1992 | #2,687 | 45 |
| 1991 | #3,036 | 37 |
| 1990 | #3,156 | 35 |
| 1989 | #4,522 | 20 |
| 1988 | #2,987 | 34 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 |
| 1986 | #2,724 | 35 |
| 1985 | #3,008 | 30 |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 |
| 1983 | #3,065 | 27 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 |
| 1981 | #2,847 | 31 |
| 1980 | #2,699 | 34 |
| 1979 | #2,997 | 28 |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #2,612 | 29 |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #3,373 | 19 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
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| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 |
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| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 |
| 1952 | #3,372 | 11 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Samia! It came in at #4,833, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Samia is popular in 2007
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#843 · 1 in 5,145
- Illinois#915 · 1 in 5,644
- Virginia#1,188 · 1 in 7,694
- Pennsylvania#1,215 · 1 in 9,356
- Ohio#1,257 · 1 in 9,560
Best ever in a state: #199 in District of Columbia, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #843 | 19 | 1 in 5,145 |
| Illinois | #915 | 12 | 1 in 5,644 |
| Virginia | #1,188 | 5 | 1 in 7,694 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,215 | 6 | 1 in 9,356 |
| Ohio | #1,257 | 6 | 1 in 9,560 |
| Michigan | #1,275 | 5 | 1 in 9,141 |
| Florida | #1,518 | 8 | 1 in 11,160 |
| Texas | #1,558 | 14 | 1 in 12,083 |
| Georgia | #1,589 | 5 | 1 in 10,844 |
| California | #2,025 | 12 | 1 in 19,687 |
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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 Samia
- 179 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,458)
- 343 spots since 2020 (#2,115 → #2,458)
- 700 spots since 2015 (#1,758 → #2,458)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2005 at #1,539 (133 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,580 girls born in 2006 were named Samia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,323 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,539 in 2005, was only 1 in 13,894 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.6% of all girls named Samia (1,094) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 46 | #2,921 (1953) | #4,050 |
| 1960s | 59 | #3,959 (1966) | #5,568 |
| 1970s | 177 | #2,612 (1975) | #3,945 |
| 1980s | 286 | #2,699 (1980) | #3,233 |
| 1990s | 476 | #1,940 (1999) | #2,741 |
| 2000s | 1,094 | #1,539 (2005) | #1,829 |
| 2010s | 1,001 | #1,693 (2016) | #2,008 |
| 2020s | 441 | #2,115 (2020) | #2,450 |
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.
Samia in 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 14,348 of them was named Samia, which outranked 92.0% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,645Lesli135
- #1,645Nallely135
- #1,645Sawyer135
- #1,655Samia134
- #1,655Azucena134
- #1,655Berkley134
- #1,655Braelynn134
- #1,666Elly133
- #1,666Jasmyne133
- #1,666Kamaria133
Tied with 10 names at #1,655; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.