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Semih

Boys' name

Brave, generous, through سمیح

Semih has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2010, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Semih, 2011

1 in 732,000

Semih over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Semih: meaning, origin, and history

Brave, generous, through سمیح

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Semih means

Semih belongs to the name family reached through Semih → سمیح. Its meaning is “brave, generous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Semih is used in Turkish.

Semih comes through Ottoman Turkish سمیح and Arabic سَمِيح.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include سمیح.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 35 boys were recorded with the name Semih between 2005 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2010; its best national rank was #8,673 in 2010.

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 Semih?

Semih had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Semih sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Semih. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Semihs were born

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

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
60.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Semih 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 2010 (9)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,673
2010

Spellings of Semih

Semih is not the most common spelling — Seth is, with 68.1% against Semih'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.

Semih around the world

Where Semih 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
    1997–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1976–2025
    #1,529
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Semih by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,673
2010
Peak year
2010
9 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Semih

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

SemirSemajeSemonSemajaSemisiSamihSemmieSemereSemajaySemahjSemyonSemionSemajaeJamihJeramihSemSemajaiJerimihJermihSemajSemariasJeremih

Sibling names for Semih

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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