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Samra

Girls' name

Brunette

Samra has been given to 453 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 2003, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Samra, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samra: meaning, origin, and history

Brunette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samra means

Samra means “brunette”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Samra is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sam.ˈraːʔ/ for Samra.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 453 girls were recorded with the name Samra between 1946 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2003; its best national rank was #3,647 in 1953.

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 Samra?

Samra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samra 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samra was born before 1999 — so the typical Samra is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
445
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Samra 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (22)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,647
1953

Spellings of Samra

Samra is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 25.4% against Samra's 0.01%.

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 Samra is used

Across 1910–2025, Samra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,096,891 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Samra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Samra around the world

Where Samra 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
    1996–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    1977–2025
    #4,448
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2004
    #2,752
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1970–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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.

Samra 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
#3,647
1953
Peak year
2003
22 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
453
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Samra

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

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Sibling names for Samra

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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