Meaning not yet researched.
Samanta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,921 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,921 in 2000; #5,876 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Samanta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,876 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,921.
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Samanta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,921 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 98 (2005).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Samanta, making it the 5,876th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,474 places from #8,350 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 13 girls named Samanta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,921, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 98, in 2005. For comparison, it was #5,103 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samanta in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 1,862 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 816 babies named Samanta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 198 US girls were named Samanta; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Samantha (594,052 babies since 1880) and Sammantha (1,985 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Samanta in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,876 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,350 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,630 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,605 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,920 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,287 | — | — |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,762 | — | — |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,088 | — | — |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,312 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,260 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,103 | — | — |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,250 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,882 | — | — |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,144 | — | — |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,814 | — | — |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,331 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,614 | — | — |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,089 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,144 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,393 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,135 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,605 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,915 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,739 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,188 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,836 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,981 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,220 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,974 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,788 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,311 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).