Samay
#2,925 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Samay has been given to 486 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #2,925 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 43 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.
Babies named Samay, 2025
1 in 77,100
Samay 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Samay over time
In 2025, Samay went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Samay?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 77,100
- 43 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 39,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,925
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 53,441 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Samay 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Samays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Samay was born before 2016 — so the typical Samay is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 38.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 445
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (170).
Is Samay 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
- +456
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,745
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,676
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.78×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (43)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.4% average annual change
Spellings of Samay
Samay is not the most common spelling — Sam is, with 34.6% against Samay's 0.12%.
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 Samay is used
Across 1910–2025, Samay was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 480,284 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New Jersey1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Washington1 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. Samay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Samay around the world
Where Samay 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 & Wales2003–2025#2,440in 2025
- Canada2023–2024#1,459in 2024
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 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.
Samay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Samay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Samay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.