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Samer

#6,381 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Samir

Samer has been given to 1,463 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #6,381 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Samer, 2025

1 in 237,000

Samer over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samer: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Samir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samer means

Samer is a alternate transcription of Samir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Samer → Samir → سَمِير. The family’s meaning is “entertaining”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements سمير.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Samir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,458 boys were recorded with the name Samer between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,696 in 1988.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,243 in 2015 to #6,381 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Samer between 1993 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1993; its best national rank was #15,278 in 1993.

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 Samer?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,381
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samer 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samer was born before 1994 — so the typical Samer is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
29.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,458
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 29.9% of all recorded uses (436).

Is Samer 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
+1,823
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,138
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.4%
Peak was 1994 (53)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,696
1988

Spellings of Samer

Samer is not the most common spelling — James is, with 77.2% against Samer's 0.02%.

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 Samer is used

Across 1910–2025, Samer was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 204,694 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 in —

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. Samer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Samer around the world

Where Samer 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2011
    #6,523
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Samer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,381
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,696
1988
Peak year
1994
53 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,458
Count in 2025
14

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,278
1993
Peak year
1993
5 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Samer

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

SamarSamadSamaySamySamajSamariSamarthSameerSamaelTamerSammerAmerSamirSamiSamieSamualSammuelSamilTomerSampsonSameulSamvelSamanSamson

Sibling names for Samer

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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