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Sameen

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Literal meaning not recorded; Persian origin

Sameen has been given to 147 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 2019, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Sameen, 2024

1 in 557,000

Sameen over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2024, Sameen went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19902024

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.

Sameen: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Persian origin

Persian

What Sameen means

Sameen is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sameen is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 137 girls were recorded with the name Sameen between 1990 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2019; its best national rank was #9,023 in 2019.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Sameen between 1995 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1995; its best national rank was #10,033 in 1995.

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 Sameen?

Sameen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sameen 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sameen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sameens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sameen was born before 2006 — so the typical Sameen is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
137
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2010s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Sameen 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 2019 (12)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,023
2019

Spellings of Sameen

Sameen is not the most common spelling — Janeen is, with 13.5% against Sameen's 0.28%.

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 Sameen is used

Across 1910–2025, Sameen was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Sameen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sameen around the world

Where Sameen 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
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    2015–2016
    #7,523
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sameen 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
—
Best rank ever
#9,023
2019
Peak year
2019
12 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
137
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,033
1995
Peak year
1995
5 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sameen

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

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Sibling names for Sameen

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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