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Samia

#2,478 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Samia has been given to 3,580 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #2,478 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 140 recorded.

Babies named Samia, 2025

1 in 46,000

Samia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samia: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samia means

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

The naming story behind Samia

A separate documented entry treats Samia as a alternate transcription of Samiya. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Samia as a feminine form of Sami. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,580 girls were recorded with the name Samia between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 140 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,545 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,134 in 2020 to #2,478 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,765 in 2015 to #2,478 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.

How common is Samia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,000
72 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 22,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,478
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samia 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samia was born before 2007 — so the typical Samia is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,580
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (1,094).

Is Samia 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
+176
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−344
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−713
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.4%
Peak was 2006 (140)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,545
2005

Spellings of Samia

Samia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 17.1% against Samia's 0.11%.

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 Samia is used

Across 2016–2025, Samia was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 20,937 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 6,667
  2. 2New York1 in 10,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 12,500
  4. 4Georgia1 in 12,500
  5. 5Illinois1 in 16,667
  6. 6Maryland1 in 20,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 20,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 25,000

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.

Samia around the world

Where Samia 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
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2005–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    1949–2025
    #1,232
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2013
    #818
    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 Samia

People whose public names include Samia, 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.

Samia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,478
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 344
Best rank ever
#1,545
2005
Peak year
2006
140 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,580
Count in 2025
72

Names similar to Samia

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

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Names with a curve like Samia

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

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Sibling names for Samia

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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