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Samarah

#2,991 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Samarah has been given to 2,051 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #2,991 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 120 recorded.

Babies named Samarah, 2025

1 in 59,200

Samarah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samarah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samarah means

Samarah is a given name.

The naming story behind Samarah

Wikidata records Samarah as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q116367619, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,051 girls were recorded with the name Samarah between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 120 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,742 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,624 in 2020 to #2,991 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,051 in 2015 to #2,991 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 Samarah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,991
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samarah 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samarah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samarahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samarah was born before 2011 — so the typical Samarah is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,051
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (776).

Is Samarah 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
−561
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−367
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+60
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2006 (120)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,742
2006

Spellings of Samarah

Samarah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 79.9% against Samarah's 0.15%.

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 Samarah is used

Across 2016–2025, Samarah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 19,697 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 11,111
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3New York1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Arizona1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 50,000

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.

Samarah around the world

Where Samarah 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
    2001–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2023
    #6,341
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Samarah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,991
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 367
Best rank ever
#1,742
2006
Peak year
2006
120 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,051
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Samarah

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

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Names with a curve like Samarah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Samarah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Samarah

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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