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Samaa

#8,778 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Sama

Samaa has been given to 181 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #8,778 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Samaa, 2025

1 in 276,000

Samaa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samaa: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sama

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samaa means

Samaa is a alternate transcription of Sama.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Samaa → Sama. The family’s meaning is “sky”, recorded in the naming reference for Sama.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sama.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 181 girls were recorded with the name Samaa between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2015; its best national rank was #8,343 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,955 in 2020 to #8,778 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,857 in 2015 to #8,778 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 Samaa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,778
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samaa 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samaa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samaas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samaa was born before 2015 — so the typical Samaa is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
181
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Samaa 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
−435
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,177
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+79
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.3%
Peak was 2015 (13)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,343
2024

Spellings of Samaa

Samaa is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 52.0% against Samaa's <0.01%.

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.

Samaa around the world

Where Samaa 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
    2002–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #6,351
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Samaa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,778
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,177
Best rank ever
#8,343
2024
Peak year
2015
13 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
181
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Samaa

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

SamieSamaiSamahSamaniSamarySamaiaSamikaSamoniSamayraSamanSameriaSamarSamihaSamreenSameraSamyrahSamyiahSamoraSamyriaSaminaSameyaSamraSamirSammi

Sibling names for Samaa

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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