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Samarth

#2,355 in 2025Boys' name

Capable, competent

Samarth has been given to 1,470 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #2,355 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Samarth, 2025

1 in 56,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samarth: meaning, origin, and history

Capable, competent

Sanskrit

What Samarth means

Samarth means “capable, competent”, associated with samartha.

Origin, language, and formation

Samarth is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,470 boys were recorded with the name Samarth between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 97 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,625 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,230 in 2020 to #2,355 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,801 in 2015 to #2,355 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Samarth?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 56,200
59 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,355
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samarth 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 38,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samarth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samarths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samarth was born before 2016 — so the typical Samarth is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,470
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2010s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (754).

Is Samarth 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
−315
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−125
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−554
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.8%
Peak was 2018 (97)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,625
2014

Spellings of Samarth

Samarth is the most-used spelling, taking 31.6% of the 4,652 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Samarth is used

Across 2016–2025, Samarth was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,263 boys, against 1 in 18,945 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,263
  2. 2Washington1 in 10,000
  3. 3California1 in 11,111
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 25,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6New York1 in 33,333
  7. 7Virginia1 in 33,333
  8. 8Illinois1 in 50,000

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.

Samarth around the world

Where Samarth 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
    2003–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #1,071
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Samarth by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,355
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 125
Best rank ever
#1,625
2014
Peak year
2018
97 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,470
Count in 2025
59

Names similar to Samarth

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

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Sibling names for Samarth

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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