Meaning not yet researched.
Sameer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 69 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,136 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,136 in 2001; #2,123 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sameer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,123 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,136.
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Sameer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 69 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,136 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 136 (2005).
In 2025, 69 US boys were named Sameer, making it the 2,123rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 10 places from #2,113 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 71 boys named Sameer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,136, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 136, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,888 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sameer in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 3,414 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,083 babies named Sameer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 637 US boys were named Sameer; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sameer ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,106 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) and Samar (2,385 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Sameer 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 11 | #1,106 | #887 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,128 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,226 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,566 | #1,614 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,046 | #1,907 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 69 | #2,123 |
| 2024 | — | — | 71 | #2,113 |
| 2023 | — | — | 57 | #2,413 |
| 2022 | — | — | 59 | #2,401 |
| 2021 | — | — | 71 | #2,076 |
| 2020 | — | — | 64 | #2,182 |
| 2019 | — | — | 48 | #2,686 |
| 2018 | — | — | 71 | #2,042 |
| 2017 | — | — | 61 | #2,212 |
| 2016 | — | — | 66 | #2,132 |
| 2015 | — | — | 78 | #1,888 |
| 2014 | — | — | 87 | #1,748 |
| 2013 | — | — | 67 | #2,039 |
| 2012 | — | — | 76 | #1,906 |
| 2011 | — | — | 93 | #1,642 |
| 2010 | — | — | 77 | #1,878 |
| 2009 | — | — | 83 | #1,807 |
| 2008 | — | — | 90 | #1,706 |
| 2007 | — | — | 90 | #1,696 |
| 2006 | — | — | 129 | #1,292 |
| 2005 | — | — | 136 | #1,179 |
| 2004 | — | — | 119 | #1,269 |
| 2003 | — | — | 106 | #1,317 |
| 2002 | — | — | 108 | #1,264 |
| 2001 | — | — | 123 | #1,136 |
| 2000 | — | — | 99 | #1,309 |
| 1999 | — | — | 81 | #1,445 |
| 1998 | — | — | 52 | #1,894 |
| 1997 | — | — | 65 | #1,577 |
| 1996 | — | — | 55 | #1,722 |
| 1995 | — | — | 57 | #1,620 |
| 1994 | — | — | 67 | #1,450 |
| 1993 | — | — | 57 | #1,595 |
| 1992 | — | — | 50 | #1,726 |
| 1991 | — | — | 45 | #1,792 |
| 1990 | — | — | 41 | #1,903 |
| 1989 | — | — | 47 | #1,676 |
| 1988 | — | — | 48 | #1,547 |
| 1987 | — | — | 32 | #1,970 |
| 1986 | — | — | 39 | #1,660 |
| 1985 | — | — | 28 | #2,060 |
| 1984 | — | — | 34 | #1,714 |
| 1983 | — | — | 50 | #1,326 |
| 1982 | — | — | 45 | #1,438 |
| 1981 | — | — | 42 | #1,496 |
| 1980 | — | — | 34 | #1,721 |
| 1979 | — | — | 37 | #1,592 |
| 1978 | — | — | 36 | #1,593 |
| 1977 | — | — | 35 | #1,604 |
| 1976 | — | — | 34 | #1,600 |
| 1975 | — | — | 24 | #1,990 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,968 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,302 |
| 1972 | — | — | 16 | #2,405 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,305 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,633 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,910 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,061 |
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).