Samyah
#8,262 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Samyah has been given to 802 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #8,262 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 71 recorded.
Babies named Samyah, 2025
1 in 255,000
Samyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Samyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,262
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Samyah 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Samyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Samyah was born before 2010 — so the typical Samyah is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 802
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (356).
Is Samyah 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
- +593
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,216
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,875
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.39×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 18.3%
- Peak was 2006 (71)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.8% average annual change
Spellings of Samyah
Samyah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 85.0% against Samyah's 0.06%.
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 Samyah is used
Across 1910–2025, Samyah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 614,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6New Jersey1 in —
- 7New York1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 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. Samyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Samyah around the world
Where Samyah 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.
- France2012–2012#7,924in 2012
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Samyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Samyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Samyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.