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Samet

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Samet has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2010. 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 2010, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Samet, 2010

1 in 739,000

Samet over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samet: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samet means

Samet is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Samet is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Samet between 2010 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2010; its best national rank was #13,889 in 2010.

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 Samet?

Samet had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,695,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samet 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 2010 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 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samet was born before 2010 — so the typical Samet is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Samet 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 2010 (5)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,889
2010

Spellings of Samet

Samet is not the most common spelling — James is, with 82.6% against Samet'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.

Samet around the world

Where Samet 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
    1999–2016
    #4,023
    in 2016
  • France
    1985–2025
    #5,145
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Samet by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#13,889
2010
Peak year
2010
5 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Samet

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

SamimSamaSamarvSamaiSamipSamejSamedSamidSamweliSampSammulSamoraSamoneSameemSameepSammanSamaraSamonSamyrSamienSamvidSamvedSamuilSameen

Sibling names for Samet

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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