Samaria
#1,895 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Samaria has been given to 4,511 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #1,895 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 241 recorded.
Babies named Samaria, 2025
1 in 31,900
Samaria over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Samaria?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 31,900
- 104 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 15,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,895
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 22,096 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Samaria sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 22,096 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samaria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Samarias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Samaria was born before 2006 — so the typical Samaria is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 39.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,511
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (1,775).
Is Samaria 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
- −166
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +880
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +191
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.11×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 43.2%
- Peak was 2007 (241)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.7% average annual change
Spellings of Samaria
Samaria is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 61.3% against Samaria's 0.49%.
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 Samaria is used
Across 2016–2025, Samaria was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 21,892 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 10,000
- 2Florida1 in 12,500
- 3North Carolina1 in 12,500
- 4Texas1 in 16,667
- 5Alabama1 in 20,000
- 6Tennessee1 in 25,000
- 7California1 in 33,333
- 8Illinois1 in 33,333
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.
Samaria around the world
Where Samaria 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 & Wales2007–2022#3,971in 2022
- France2018–2020#4,954in 2020
- Canada2007–2007#3,117in 2007
- South Australia1993–1993#712in 1993
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.
Samaria by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Samaria
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Samaria
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Samaria, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Samaria
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.