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Sama

#1,221 in 2025Girls' name

Sky

Sama has been given to 1,819 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #1,221 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 186 recorded.

Babies named Sama, 2025

1 in 17,800

Sama over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sama: meaning, origin, and history

Sky

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sama means

Sama means “sky”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,813 girls were recorded with the name Sama between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 186 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,221 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,190 in 2020 to #1,221 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,804 in 2015 to #1,221 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Sama between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2025; its best national rank was #11,752 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sama?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,800
186 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,640
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,221
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,355 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sama sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,355 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sama. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sama was born before 2018 — so the typical Sama is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,813
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (784).

Is Sama rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+156
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+969
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,583
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.95×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (186)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,221
2025

Spellings of Sama

Sama is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 19.3% against Sama's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sama is used

Across 2016–2025, Sama was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 12,018 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

224 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 4,167
  2. 2Virginia1 in 5,556
  3. 3Illinois1 in 6,667
  4. 4New York1 in 8,333
  5. 5California1 in 10,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 12,500
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 14,286
  8. 8Texas1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Sama around the world

Where Sama ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #473
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2025
    #387
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2024
    #337
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2016–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #975
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #501
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1962–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sama by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,221
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 969
Best rank ever
#1,221
2025
Peak year
2025
186 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,813
Count in 2025
186

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,752
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,752
2025
Peak year
2025
6 that year
First recorded
2025
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Sama

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sama

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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