Samee

Boys' name

Hearer

Samee has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 2001, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Samee, 2005

1 in 769,000

Samee over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samee: meaning, origin, and history

Hearer

Arabic

What Samee means

Samee means “hearer”, associated with samīʕ.

Origin, language, and formation

Samee is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Samee comes through Arabic سَمِيع.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 36 boys were recorded with the name Samee between 1994 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2001; its best national rank was #8,166 in 2001.

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 Samee?

Samee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005: 1 in 769,000; 5 of 3,844,258 births
Among boys only: 1 in 399,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2005: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 532,928 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Samee 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samee was born before 2001 — so the typical Samee is around 24 today.

Median birth year: 2001; About 24 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 69.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 36; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 69.4% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Samee 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: —; 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 2001 (8)
Years since peak: 24; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,166; 2001

Spellings of Samee

Samee is not the most common spelling — James is, with 81.3% against Samee's <0.01%.

James81.3%5,250,638
Samuel12.7%820,196
Sam2.0%127,234
Jamie1.4%88,654
Sammy0.67%43,382
Sammie0.32%20,836
Sage0.24%15,762
Jamel0.17%11,225

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.

Samee around the world

Where Samee 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
1997–2023
#4,992
in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Samee by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,166; 2001
Peak year: 2001; 8 that year
First recorded: 1994
Last recorded: 2005
All-time count: 36
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Samee

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

Samyr Samip Samuil Samai Samim Samved Sambo Samil Sameh Samyar Samori Sameir Samih Sambhav Samere Sammi Samuela Samrat Samel Samiel Samyak Samit Samier Sammer

Sibling names for Samee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Magaly Nyah Lesli Nya Alysa Danae Joana Madisen

For a brother

Destin Cristobal Dallin Donavon Coby Kevon Zakary Keyon

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