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Samiya

#2,212 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Sami

Samiya has been given to 4,096 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #2,212 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 264 recorded.

Babies named Samiya, 2025

1 in 39,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samiya: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Sami

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samiya means

Samiya is a feminine form of Sami.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Samiya is a feminine form of Sami. Sami has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sami.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,096 girls were recorded with the name Samiya between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 264 in 2011; its best national rank was #973 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,869 in 2020 to #2,212 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,325 in 2015 to #2,212 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 Samiya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,500
84 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,212
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,357 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samiya 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 27,357 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samiyas were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,096
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Choose a decade

2010s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (1,818).

Is Samiya 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
−161
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−343
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−887
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.8%
Peak was 2011 (264)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#973
2011

Spellings of Samiya

Samiya is not the most common spelling — Camila is, with 17.5% against Samiya's 0.58%.

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 Samiya is used

Across 2016–2025, Samiya was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 3,571 girls, against 1 in 15,983 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

228 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 3,571
  2. 2New York1 in 7,143
  3. 3Georgia1 in 7,692
  4. 4Florida1 in 10,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 10,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 10,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 14,286
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 16,667

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.

Samiya around the world

Where Samiya 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
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • France
    1964–2025
    #4,830
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Samiya

People whose public names include Samiya, 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.

Samiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,212
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 343
Best rank ever
#973
2011
Peak year
2011
264 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,096
Count in 2025
84

Names similar to Samiya

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

SamaiyaSamayaSamuelSamoneSammieSamiraSamariaSamiaSamiahSamiyahSamariSamyaSamyraZaniyaSamarahKamiyaJamiyaZakiyaTaniyaSamirahLaniyaAlaiyaSamantaMakiya

Names with a curve like Samiya

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

GracynIzabelleLaniyahMakiyahAiyannaAnanyaAlanahAditiDiyaYarelyKailynnAmyah

Sibling names for Samiya

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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