Meaning not yet researched.
Samar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,790 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,790 in 2022; #2,329 in 2025. About 67% of babies named Samar in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,329 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,790.
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Samar: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,790 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 92 (2022).
In 2025, 60 US boys were named Samar, making it the 2,329th most common boys’ name of the year, down 20 places from #2,309 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 62 boys named Samar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,790, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 92. For comparison, it was #2,204 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Samar, making it the 4,736th most common girls’ name of the year, up 270 places from #5,006 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 27 girls named Samar in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,627, reached in 1998. The most girls given the name in a single year was 33, in 2010. For comparison, it was #4,833 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samar in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 2,385 US babies have been given the name, 46% of them girls and 54% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 820 babies named Samar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 710 US boys were named Samar; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,468 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Samar ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,189 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Samir (11,163 babies since 1880), Zamir (4,295 babies since 1880) and Sameer (3,414 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 Arabic. 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 Samar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,189 | #1,842 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,225 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,994 | #1,594 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,889 | #2,345 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,736 | 60 | #2,329 |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,006 | 62 | #2,309 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,975 | 56 | #2,432 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,439 | 92 | #1,790 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,394 | 85 | #1,836 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,634 | 67 | #2,110 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,635 | 73 | #2,014 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,868 | 76 | #1,955 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,905 | 72 | #1,998 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,613 | 67 | #2,106 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,833 | 62 | #2,204 |
| 2014 | 28 | #5,008 | 60 | #2,249 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,211 | 46 | #2,617 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,075 | 36 | #3,160 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,131 | 32 | #3,417 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,479 | 31 | #3,513 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,628 | 17 | #5,508 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,352 | 24 | #4,241 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,024 | 26 | #3,979 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,180 | 25 | #3,975 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,766 | 37 | #2,890 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,720 | 22 | #4,109 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,790 | 9 | #7,717 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,737 | 12 | #6,005 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,574 | 16 | #4,851 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,271 | 5 | #11,812 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,388 | — | — |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,627 | 11 | #5,769 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,221 | — | — |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,807 | 8 | #6,999 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,811 | 6 | #8,688 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,093 | 7 | #7,612 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,353 | 6 | #8,513 |
| 1992 | 20 | #5,004 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,177 | 5 | #9,361 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,655 | 7 | #7,037 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,786 | 7 | #6,809 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,261 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,436 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,505 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,956 | 5 | #7,130 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,429 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,679 | 9 | #4,520 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,709 | 5 | #7,090 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,478 | 6 | #6,109 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,875 | 7 | #5,266 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,633 | 7 | #4,960 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,459 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,937 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,993 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,874 | 6 | #5,126 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,976 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,312 | — | — |
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).