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Samad

#5,803 in 2025Boys' name

Eternal

Samad has been given to 833 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #5,803 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Samad, 2025

1 in 207,000

Samad over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samad: meaning, origin, and history

Eternal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samad means

Samad means “eternal”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 833 boys were recorded with the name Samad between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,656 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,650 in 2020 to #5,803 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,378 in 2015 to #5,803 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 Samad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,803
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samad was born before 2003 — so the typical Samad is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
833
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (236).

Is Samad 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
+948
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−153
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,425
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.2%
Peak was 2002 (29)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,656
1983

Spellings of Samad

Samad is not the most common spelling — Sam is, with 33.5% against Samad's 0.22%.

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 Samad is used

Across 1910–2025, Samad was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 159,700 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 25,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Samad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Samad around the world

Where Samad 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2025
    #4,959
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2003
    #2,175
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Samad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,803
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 153
Best rank ever
#2,656
1983
Peak year
2002
29 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
833
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Samad

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

SamarSamerSamaySamajSamySamariSamaelSamieHamadSamilEmadSameulSamarthSamvelSameerSamanImadHammadSamulSamierSamirSamiSamyakSamual

Sibling names for Samad

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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