Samaire

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Samaire has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 2005. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Samaire, 2007

1 in 500,000

Samaire over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samaire: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samaire means

Samaire is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Samaire is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Samaire between 2005 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2006; its best national rank was #13,375 in 2006.

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.

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How common is Samaire?

Samaire had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007: 1 in 500,000; 8 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only: 1 in 240,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 346,380 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Samaire 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 2007 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 346,380 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samaire. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samaires were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samaire was born before 2006 — so the typical Samaire is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 22; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Samaire 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2006 (8)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #13,375; 2006

Spellings of Samaire

Samaire is not the most common spelling — Samara is, with 48.3% against Samaire's 0.05%.

Samara48.3%22,764
Samira18.8%8,875
Sammie16.6%7,833
Samaira3.5%1,658
Samari3.2%1,499
Samar2.3%1,107
Amaira2.2%1,035
Saphire2.0%923

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.

Samaire by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #13,375; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 8 that year
First recorded: 2005
Last recorded: 2007
All-time count: 22
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Samaire

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

Samadhy Samoura Samiria Samorah Samady Sammyjo Samarri Solaire Sameya Samnang Samaris Samaree Samaura Samihah Samyria Samridhi Samirra Sammara Samayia Samijah Samerah Samiyha Saminah Samarya

Sibling names for Samaire

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

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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