Sameh
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sameh has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1995. 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 1996, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Sameh, 2024
1 in 557,000
Sameh 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sameh?
Sameh 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 boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sameh sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sameh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Samehs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sameh was born before 2005 — so the typical Sameh is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 37.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 43
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (16).
Is Sameh 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 1996 (6)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Sameh
Sameh is not the most common spelling — James is, with 82.9% against Sameh's <0.01%.
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.
Sameh around the world
Where Sameh 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 & Wales1999–2021#4,789in 2021
- France1987–2002#4,142in 2002
- South Australia1993–1993#519in 1993
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.
Sameh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sameh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sameh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.