Samoan Girl Names

Explore names documented in Samoan naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries. This focused selection includes only sourced names with matching U.S. birth records; many other names used in this tradition are absent from the U.S. data.

Name & connection	Babies 2025 · rank	5-year rank movement	Peak year
Malia A girl living in Samoa in the Ministry of Education’s Samoan-language teaching story.	872#349	Down 90 rank positions in five years	2009
Lupe The aunt in the Ministry of Education’s Samoan-language teaching story.	6#14,239	Up 2,331 rank positions in five years	1927
Sina The central girl in the Ministry of Education’s Samoan-language teaching story.	18#6,516	Up 3,647 rank positions in five years	1917
Moana Documented Samoan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1941.	35#4,140	Down 875 rank positions in five years	2017
Penina Borne by Samoan academic Penina Su’a Ioka.	20#6,059	Down 1,540 rank positions in five years	2022
Mele Documented Samoan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1955.	13#8,177	Down 733 rank positions in five years	1991
Teuila Used by Teuila Emmy Alofipo, a Samoan education advocate.	14#7,853	new	2025

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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