Meaning not yet researched.
Samaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 116 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,161 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,161 in 2007; #1,756 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Samaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,756 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #1,161.
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Samaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 116 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,161 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 221 (2007).
In 2025, 116 US girls were named Samaya, making it the 1,756th most common girls’ name of the year, up 236 places from #1,992 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 99 girls named Samaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,161, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 221. For comparison, it was #1,791 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samaya in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 5 babies. In all, 3,164 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,317 babies named Samaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 976 US girls were named Samaya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 123. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,856 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Samaya ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #948 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sama (1,819 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zamaya, Samayah and Samaiya 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: Zamaya (735), Samayah (538), Samaiya (529), Samay (486), Samah (447), Samaiyah (309), Samai (190), Samaa (181), Samaia (105), Zamayah (79), Samaiah (47), Samayiah (17), 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 Samaya 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 8 | #948 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,323 | #656 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,414 | #1,046 |
| California | 16 | #1,470 | #2,289 |
| New York | 9 | #1,504 | #1,363 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,596 | #1,868 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,698 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 2021 | 96 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,158 | — | — |
| 2017 | 121 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 2016 | 123 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 2015 | 117 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 2011 | 211 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 2009 | 177 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 2008 | 195 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 2007 | 221 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 2006 | 170 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 2005 | 106 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2004 | 90 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,247 | — | — |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,306 | — | — |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,327 | — | — |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,178 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,544 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,197 | — | — |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,670 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,329 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,283 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,743 | — | — |
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).