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Samya

#5,075 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Samya has been given to 2,854 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #5,075 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 232 recorded.

Babies named Samya, 2025

1 in 128,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samya means

Samya is a given name.

The naming story behind Samya

Wikidata records Samya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q42610761, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,854 girls were recorded with the name Samya between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 232 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,121 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,829 in 2020 to #5,075 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,994 in 2015 to #5,075 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 Samya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,075
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samya 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samya was born before 2008 — so the typical Samya is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,854
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 54.9% of all recorded uses (1,568).

Is Samya 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
−205
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,246
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,081
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.2%
Peak was 2007 (232)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,121
2007

Spellings of Samya

Samya is not the most common spelling — Amy is, with 34.1% against Samya's 0.14%.

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 Samya is used

Across 1910–2025, Samya was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 70,674 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2Georgia1 in 33,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 50,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 50,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 50,000

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

Samya around the world

Where Samya 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
    1996–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • France
    1957–2025
    #4,404
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1946–2012
    #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 Samya

People whose public names include Samya, 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.

Samya in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Samya. Linked forms have their own page here.

Tamya

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Samya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,075
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,246
Best rank ever
#1,121
2007
Peak year
2007
232 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,854
Count in 2025
26

Names similar to Samya

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

SamiaSammySammiSamuelSamayaSamarSamoneSamiyaSamaTamyaSamiahSamariSamiKamyaLamyaSamyraSammieSamarahSamahSamirahSamiraDamyaJamyaSamanta

Names with a curve like Samya

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

AydenShaniyahLaniyaKelisKloeAdamarisAniahCarysMakaylahJaelaAidenJaniah

Sibling names for Samya

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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