Samirah
#2,562 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Samirah has been given to 1,958 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #2,562 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 84 recorded.
Babies named Samirah, 2025
1 in 48,000
Samirah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Samirah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 48,000
- 69 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 23,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,562
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 33,304 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Samirah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 33,304 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samirah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Samirahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Samirah was born before 2010 — so the typical Samirah is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 33.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 81.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,958
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (663).
Is Samirah 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
- +410
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +445
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +522
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.25×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 82.1%
- Peak was 2013 (84)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.2% average annual change
Spellings of Samirah
Samirah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 84.0% against Samirah's 0.15%.
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 Samirah is used
Across 2016–2025, Samirah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 28,733 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 14,286
- 2New York1 in 14,286
- 3Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
- 4California1 in 50,000
- 5New Jersey1 in 50,000
- 6Texas1 in 50,000
- 7Virginia1 in 50,000
- 8Ohio1 in 100,000
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.
Samirah around the world
Where Samirah 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 & Wales1996–2025#3,705in 2025
- France1979–2024#6,262in 2024
- Canada2002–2017#3,407in 2017
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Samirah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Samirah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Samirah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.