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Samiksha

Girls' name

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Samiksha has been given to 174 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 2007, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Samiksha, 2023

1 in 663,000

Samiksha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samiksha: meaning, origin, and history

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Sanskrit

What Samiksha means

Samiksha means “review”, associated with samīkṣā.

Origin, language, and formation

Samiksha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 174 girls were recorded with the name Samiksha between 1998 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2007; its best national rank was #7,720 in 2011.

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 Samiksha?

Samiksha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samiksha 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samiksha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samikshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samiksha was born before 2011 — so the typical Samiksha is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
174
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Samiksha 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (16)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,720
2011

Spellings of Samiksha

Samiksha is not the most common spelling — Tamisha is, with 28.7% against Samiksha's 2.3%.

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.

Samiksha around the world

Where Samiksha 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
    2007–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Samiksha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,720
2011
Peak year
2007
16 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
174
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Samiksha

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

SamishaSamhithaSamyuktaSamuellaSamariahSameishaSamayraSameekshaSameriaSamreenSamyukthaSamriddhiSamyrahSamridhiSamyriaSamyiahSamiyyahSamanviSamorahSamhitaSamariyaSamaniSamanvithaSamehesha

Sibling names for Samiksha

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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