Samaya
#1,756 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Samaya has been given to 3,164 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #1,756 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 221 recorded.
Babies named Samaya, 2025
1 in 28,600
Samaya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Samaya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 28,600
- 116 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 13,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,756
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 19,811 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Samaya 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 19,811 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Samayas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Samaya was born before 2011 — so the typical Samaya is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,164
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (1,317).
Is Samaya 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
- +236
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +377
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +35
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.99×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 52.5%
- Peak was 2007 (221)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.7% average annual change
Spellings of Samaya
Samaya is not the most common spelling — Tamara is, with 21.0% against Samaya's 0.51%.
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 Samaya is used
Across 2016–2025, Samaya was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 16,321 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 7,692
- 2Florida1 in 10,000
- 3California1 in 12,500
- 4New Jersey1 in 14,286
- 5Illinois1 in 16,667
- 6North Carolina1 in 20,000
- 7Virginia1 in 20,000
- 8Texas1 in 25,000
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.
Samaya around the world
Where Samaya 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 & Wales1999–2025#3,333in 2025
- France2000–2025#7,315in 2025
- Canada2006–2024#2,710in 2024
- South Australia2010–2012#871in 2012
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.
Samaya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Samaya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Samaya
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Samaya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Samaya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.