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Samatha

Girls' name

Tranquility

Samatha has been given to 4,202 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1989, with 248 recorded.

Babies named Samatha, 2018

1 in 703,000

Samatha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samatha: meaning, origin, and history

Tranquility

Sanskrit

What Samatha means

Samatha means “tranquility”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Sanskrit समाधान (samādhāna) (śamatha) meaning "tranquility" and "concentration" (referring to Buddhist meditation) or "equality".

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Samatha (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Samatha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Samatha comes through Sanskrit समाधान.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,202 girls were recorded with the name Samatha between 1964 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 248 in 1989; its best national rank was #778 in 1989.

How common is Samatha?

Samatha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samatha 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samatha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samathas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samatha was born before 1988 — so the typical Samatha is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,202
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (1,609).

Is Samatha 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (248)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#778
1989

Spellings of Samatha

Samatha is not the most common spelling — Samantha is, with 88.8% against Samatha's 0.63%.

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 Samatha is used

Across 1910–2025, Samatha was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 68,405 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 33,333
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 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. Samatha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Samatha around the world

Where Samatha 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1995
    #1,190
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1973–1990
    #477
    in 1990

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Samatha 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
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Best rank ever
#778
1989
Peak year
1989
248 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
4,202
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Samatha

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

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Names with a curve like Samatha

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

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Sibling names for Samatha

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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