Samayah
#5,370 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Samayah has been given to 538 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #5,370 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 45 recorded.
Babies named Samayah, 2025
1 in 138,000
Samayah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Samayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 138,000
- 24 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 67,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,370
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Samayah 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Samayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Samayah was born before 2012 — so the typical Samayah is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 538
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (246).
Is Samayah 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
- +2,976
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,491
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +624
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.09×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 53.3%
- Peak was 2007 (45)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.1% average annual change
Spellings of Samayah
Samayah is not the most common spelling — Amaya is, with 19.7% against Samayah's 0.24%.
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 Samayah is used
Across 1910–2025, Samayah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 686,756 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Maryland1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Virginia1 in —
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. Samayah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Samayah around the world
Where Samayah 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 & Wales2025–2025#5,927in 2025
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Samayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Samayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Samayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.