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Samsam

Girls' name

Diminutive of Samantha or Samara or Samuel or Sam

Samsam has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2005, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Samsam, 2019

1 in 579,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samsam: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Samantha or Samara or Samuel or Sam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samsam means

Samsam is a diminutive of Samantha or Samara or Samuel or Sam.

Origin, language, and formation

Samsam is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Samantha, Samara, Samuel and Sam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 55 girls were recorded with the name Samsam between 2001 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2005; its best national rank was #13,858 in 2017.

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 Samsam?

Samsam had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 280,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samsam 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 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samsam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samsams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samsam was born before 2012 — so the typical Samsam is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
58.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
55
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Choose a decade

2010s — 58.2% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Samsam 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (7)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#13,858
2017

Spellings of Samsam

Samsam is not the most common spelling — Samia is, with 29.2% against Samsam's 0.45%.

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.

Samsam around the world

Where Samsam 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
    1999–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Samsam 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
—
Best rank ever
#13,858
2017
Peak year
2005
7 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
55
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Samsam

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

SameyaSamoniSamaiaSamiriaSamorahSamalaSamoyaSamadhySamyriaSamaniSamadySamrahSamarySamylaSamridhiSamikaSamSamaiSamijoSamaaSamieSamayraSamusSamsara

Sibling names for Samsam

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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