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Saman

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Boundary, limit, order, calmness

Saman has been given to 406 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1990, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.

Babies named Saman, 2024

1 in 557,000

Saman over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Saman over time

In 2024, Saman went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19792024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Saman: meaning, origin, and history

Boundary, limit, order, calmness

Ancient Greek

What Saman means

Saman means “boundary, limit, order, calmness”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Saman is used in Persian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sɒː.ˈmɒːn/ for Saman.

Origin, language, and formation

Saman is used in Nobiin. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Saman comes through Ancient Greek Σίμων.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Simon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 288 boys were recorded with the name Saman between 1979 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1990; its best national rank was #3,685 in 1987.

In the United States, 118 girls were recorded with the name Saman between 1982 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2001; its best national rank was #6,254 in 2001.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saman?

Saman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saman 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saman was born before 1994 — so the typical Saman is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
288
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Saman 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (16)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,685
1987

Spellings of Saman

Saman is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 24.0% against Saman's 0.02%.

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 Saman is used

Across 1910–2025, Saman was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 512,727 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Saman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saman around the world

Where Saman 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
    1997–2018
    #3,412
    in 2018
  • France
    1985–2017
    #4,378
    in 2017
  • Canada
    2009–2009
    #2,692
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    2005–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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.

Saman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,685
1987
Peak year
1990
16 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
288
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,254
2001
Peak year
2001
18 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
118
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saman

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

SamajSamaySamilSamvelSamadInmanSamaelAhmanSamarSamulSamierAimanSamyakRymanSamielSamerYamanSamariSamratSamikSambaNamanSamwiseSamyr

Sibling names for Saman

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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