Samiyah

Where Samiyah comes from

Derived from Arabic سَامِيَة (sāmiya).
— Wiktionary's entry for Samiyah
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1982
    First appearance
    #10,517 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Samiyah Hassan Nour born
    Djibouti athlete
  3. 2011
    Peak, #789
    343 babies named Samiyah — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2021
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,354.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Sami.
Namesakes
  • Samiyah Hassan Nour · Djibouti athlete, born 1999

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.