Meaning not yet researched.
Samara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 957 in 2025. Its best rank was #256 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #256 in 2018; #320 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Samara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#320 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #256.
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Samara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 957 girls in 2025. Peak: #256 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 1,270 (2018).
In 2025, 957 US girls were named Samara, making it the 320th most common girls’ name of the year, down 11 places from #309 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 998 girls named Samara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #256, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,270. For comparison, it was #633 in 2015 and #5,966 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samara in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 22,769 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,853 babies named Samara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,866 US girls were named Samara; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 1,270. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,679 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Samara ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #175 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Samira (8,875 babies since 1880), Samarah (2,051 babies since 1880), Samirah (1,958 babies since 1880) and Zamira (1,702 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Samyra, Sameera and Samora are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Samyra (1,128), Sameera (850), Samora (636), Samera (571), Samarra (419), Zamyra (309), Samyrah (271), Samayra (198), Zamarah (162), Samorah (76), Samarrah (70), Samerah (37), and more.
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 Samara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 15 | #175 | — |
| Maryland | 28 | #187 | #391 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #212 | #459 |
| California | 153 | #217 | #579 |
| New Jersey | 38 | #218 | #702 |
| Florida | 75 | #257 | #478 |
| Arizona | 28 | #263 | #385 |
| Texas | 129 | #269 | #702 |
| New York | 60 | #281 | #419 |
| Illinois | 38 | #287 | #1,048 |
| Georgia | 35 | #303 | #723 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #332 | — |
| South Carolina | 15 | #345 | — |
| Iowa | 10 | #351 | — |
| Virginia | 22 | #374 | #840 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #385 | #494 |
| Oregon | 10 | #386 | #577 |
| Washington | 19 | #387 | #751 |
| Indiana | 18 | #392 | #845 |
| Kansas | 9 | #401 | — |
| North Carolina | 28 | #402 | #628 |
| Colorado | 14 | #425 | #863 |
| Utah | 10 | #438 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #440 | #708 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #445 | #615 |
| Idaho | 5 | #470 | — |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #471 | #939 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #473 | #761 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #474 | #746 |
| Ohio | 23 | #480 | #696 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #529 | #1,224 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #547 | #675 |
| Alabama | 9 | #570 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #650 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #717 | #518 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #852 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,041 | #1,464 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 957 | #320 | — | — |
| 2024 | 998 | #309 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,196 | #259 | 5 | #13,815 |
| 2022 | 1,068 | #299 | — | — |
| 2021 | 834 | #374 | — | — |
| 2020 | 886 | #351 | — | — |
| 2019 | 978 | #328 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,270 | #256 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,009 | #324 | — | — |
| 2016 | 670 | #475 | — | — |
| 2015 | 452 | #633 | — | — |
| 2014 | 452 | #635 | — | — |
| 2013 | 493 | #583 | — | — |
| 2012 | 516 | #569 | — | — |
| 2011 | 525 | #557 | — | — |
| 2010 | 488 | #602 | — | — |
| 2009 | 594 | #509 | — | — |
| 2008 | 629 | #500 | — | — |
| 2007 | 707 | #456 | — | — |
| 2006 | 948 | #349 | — | — |
| 2005 | 825 | #380 | — | — |
| 2004 | 857 | #365 | — | — |
| 2003 | 656 | #456 | — | — |
| 2002 | 242 | #929 | — | — |
| 2001 | 261 | #883 | — | — |
| 2000 | 248 | #889 | — | — |
| 1999 | 223 | #942 | — | — |
| 1998 | 204 | #990 | — | — |
| 1997 | 197 | #992 | — | — |
| 1996 | 170 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1995 | 179 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1994 | 174 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1993 | 171 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1992 | 145 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1991 | 159 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1990 | 150 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1989 | 128 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1988 | 108 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1987 | 91 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1986 | 104 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1985 | 101 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1984 | 107 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1983 | 100 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1982 | 114 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1981 | 125 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1980 | 104 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1979 | 115 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1978 | 125 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1977 | 117 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1976 | 101 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1975 | 71 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1974 | 74 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1973 | 78 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1971 | 89 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1970 | 60 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,422 | — | — |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,379 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,844 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,799 | — | — |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,574 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,263 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,472 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,306 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,160 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,840 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,001 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,638 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,562 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,451 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,088 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,966 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,921 | — | — |
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).