Meaning not yet researched.
Samarah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,742 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,742 in 2006; #2,991 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Samarah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,991 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,742.
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Samarah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,742 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 120 (2006).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Samarah, making it the 2,991st most common girls’ name of the year, down 561 places from #2,430 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 75 girls named Samarah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,742, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 120. For comparison, it was #3,051 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samarah in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 2,051 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 776 babies named Samarah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 742 US girls were named Samarah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Samarah ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #1,019 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Samara (22,769 babies since 1880), Samira (8,875 babies since 1880), Samirah (1,958 babies since 1880) and Samaira (1,658 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sameerah, Zamorah and Zamyrah 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: Sameerah (469), Zamorah (150), Zamyrah (95).
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 Samarah 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 6 | #1,019 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,645 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,849 | — |
| California | 6 | #3,044 | #2,016 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,227 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 2022 | 77 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 2018 | 84 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 2016 | 82 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,411 | — | — |
| 2013 | 72 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,119 | — | — |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 2009 | 104 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 2006 | 120 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,412 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,852 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,282 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,428 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,645 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,111 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,009 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,555 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,927 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,523 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,852 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,118 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,037 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,074 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,456 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,313 | — | — |
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).