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Sameera

#5,527 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Sameera has been given to 850 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #5,527 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Sameera, 2025

1 in 144,000

Sameera over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sameera: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sameera means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Sameera is used in English.

Sameera comes through Sanskrit समीर.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include सम, سَمِيرَة and समीर.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 850 girls were recorded with the name Sameera between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,985 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,979 in 2020 to #5,527 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,477 in 2015 to #5,527 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 Sameera?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,527
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sameera 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sameera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sameeras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sameera was born before 2008 — so the typical Sameera is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
850
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (266).

Is Sameera 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
+1,355
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−548
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,050
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.5%
Peak was 2016 (38)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,985
2016

Spellings of Sameera

Sameera is not the most common spelling — Samara is, with 32.1% against Sameera's 1.2%.

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 Sameera is used

Across 1910–2025, Sameera was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 445,363 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New 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. Sameera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sameera around the world

Where Sameera 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
    1996–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    2006–2006
    #6,132
    in 2006
  • Canada
    2004–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2010–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Sameera by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,527
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 548
Best rank ever
#3,985
2016
Peak year
2016
38 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
850
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Sameera

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

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Sibling names for Sameera

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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