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Samira

#723 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Samira has been given to 8,875 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #723 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 387 recorded.

Babies named Samira, 2025

1 in 8,570

Samira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samira: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Persian

What Samira means

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

The naming story behind Samira

A separate documented entry treats Samira as a feminine form of Samir. 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.

Origin, language, and formation

Samira is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Samira comes through Persian سمیرا.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Samira is pronounced /sæˈmiːrə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,875 girls were recorded with the name Samira between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 387 in 2025; its best national rank was #723 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #928 in 2020 to #723 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,125 in 2015 to #723 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Samira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,570
387 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,150
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#723
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,939 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samira 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,939 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samira was born before 2009 — so the typical Samira is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,875
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Choose a decade

2010s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (2,404).

Is Samira 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
+51
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+205
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+402
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.70×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (387)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#723
2025

Spellings of Samira

Samira is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 41.9% against Samira's 0.42%.

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 Samira is used

Across 2016–2025, Samira was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 2,000 girls, against 1 in 4,631 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 33,333).

350 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 2,000
  2. 2New York1 in 2,174
  3. 3Florida1 in 3,333
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 3,448
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 3,448
  6. 6Maryland1 in 3,571
  7. 7Colorado1 in 3,846
  8. 8Illinois1 in 4,000

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.

Geographically, Samira is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 52% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Samira around the world

Where Samira 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
    #997
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1986–2020
    #544
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    1999–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1954–2025
    #619
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #424
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,151
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, 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 Samira

People whose public names include Samira, 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.

Samira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#723
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 205
Best rank ever
#723
2025
Peak year
2025
387 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,875
Count in 2025
387

Names similar to Samira

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

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Names with a curve like Samira

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

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Sibling names for Samira

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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