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Sameer

#2,123 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Sameer has been given to 3,414 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #2,123 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 136 recorded.

Babies named Sameer, 2025

1 in 48,000

Sameer over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sameer: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Sanskrit and Arabic

What Sameer means

Sameer has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

Origin, language, and formation

Sameer is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit and Arabic.

Sameer comes through Hindi समीर.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include सम, سَمِير and समीर.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Sameer is pronounced /səˈmir/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,414 boys were recorded with the name Sameer between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 136 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,134 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,182 in 2020 to #2,123 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,888 in 2015 to #2,123 in 2025.

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 Sameer?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,000
69 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 24,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,123
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,304 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sameer 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,304 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sameer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sameers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sameer was born before 2004 — so the typical Sameer is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,414
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (1,083).

Is Sameer 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
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+59
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−235
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.7%
Peak was 2005 (136)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,134
2001

Spellings of Sameer

Sameer is not the most common spelling — Samuel is, with 87.8% against Sameer's 0.37%.

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 Sameer is used

Across 2016–2025, Sameer was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 29,845 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 25,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 33,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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.

Sameer around the world

Where Sameer 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
    1996–2025
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2015
    #686
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2005–2019
    #764
    in 2019
  • France
    2000–2022
    #5,758
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Sameer

People whose public names include Sameer, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sameer in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sameer. Linked forms have their own page here.

Samir

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sameer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,123
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 59
Best rank ever
#1,134
2001
Peak year
2005
136 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,414
Count in 2025
69

Names similar to Sameer

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

SamualSampsonSammuelSamsonSamariSamarthSamerSamarSammieSamaelSamirSamiJameerSamadSameulAmeerSamvelSamaySamyVeerSamajNaseerSamierSamyak

Names with a curve like Sameer

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sameer, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TaiAjayZachJuancarlosAramisPaoloJobBlayneMykelBraulioDavenKamal

Sibling names for Sameer

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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