Samya
#4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 232 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,854since 1981
Samya over time
Rank among girls' names. Samya 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 | #4,987 | 26 |
| 2024 | #4,772 | 28 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 |
| 2018 | #3,107 | 52 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 |
| 2016 | #2,667 | 65 |
| 2015 | #2,964 | 58 |
| 2014 | #1,982 | 100 |
| 2013 | #1,968 | 100 |
| 2012 | #1,351 | 173 |
| 2011 | #1,324 | 176 |
| 2010 | #1,450 | 156 |
| 2009 | #1,292 | 187 |
| 2008 | #1,184 | 215 |
| 2007 | #1,115 | 232 |
| 2006 | #1,222 | 197 |
| 2005 | #1,252 | 181 |
| 2004 | #1,278 | 167 |
| 2003 | #1,676 | 114 |
| 2002 | #1,535 | 123 |
| 2001 | #1,819 | 97 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 |
| 1999 | #3,718 | 32 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
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| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Samya! It came in at #9,110, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Samya is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#442 · 1 in 1,929
- Louisiana#468 · 1 in 2,187
- South Carolina#527 · 1 in 2,492
- Alabama#620 · 1 in 3,289
- Kentucky#651 · 1 in 3,938
Best ever in a state: #274 in Mississippi, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #442 | 6 | 1 in 1,929 |
| Louisiana | #468 | 9 | 1 in 2,187 |
| South Carolina | #527 | 7 | 1 in 2,492 |
| Alabama | #620 | 6 | 1 in 3,289 |
| Kentucky | #651 | 5 | 1 in 3,938 |
| Pennsylvania | #681 | 12 | 1 in 4,571 |
| New Jersey | #739 | 9 | 1 in 4,510 |
| Virginia | #778 | 8 | 1 in 4,638 |
| North Carolina | #786 | 10 | 1 in 4,540 |
| Georgia | #826 | 11 | 1 in 4,672 |
| Tennessee | #849 | 6 | 1 in 5,179 |
| Florida | #919 | 14 | 1 in 6,122 |
| New York | #962 | 15 | 1 in 6,339 |
| Texas | #1,186 | 19 | 1 in 8,453 |
| Illinois | #1,190 | 8 | 1 in 8,395 |
| California | #3,523 | 5 | 1 in 46,084 |
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See more about Samya
- 215 spots since 2024 (#4,772 → #4,987)
- 1,209 spots since 2020 (#3,778 → #4,987)
- 2,023 spots since 2015 (#2,964 → #4,987)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2007 at #1,115 (232 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,287 girls born in 2007 were named Samya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,818 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 54.9% of all girls named Samya (1,568) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 16 | #9,110 (1981) | #11,090 |
| 1990s | 107 | #3,718 (1999) | #8,147 |
| 2000s | 1,568 | #1,115 (2007) | #1,505 |
| 2010s | 967 | #1,324 (2011) | #2,393 |
| 2020s | 196 | #3,536 (2022) | #4,438 |
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.
Samya in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 10,209 of them was named Samya, which outranked 93.5% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).