Meaning not yet researched.
Samia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,545 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,545 in 2005; #2,478 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Samia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,478 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,545.
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Samia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,545 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 140 (2006).
In 2025, 72 US girls were named Samia, making it the 2,478th most common girls’ name of the year, up 176 places from #2,654 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 66 girls named Samia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,545, reached in 2005. The most girls given the name in a single year was 140, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,765 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samia in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 6 babies. In all, 3,580 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,094 babies named Samia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 883 US girls were named Samia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 126. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,323 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Samia ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #977 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sammy (45,140 babies since 1880), Sammie (28,669 babies since 1880), Sami (6,727 babies since 1880) and Samiyah (5,255 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zamyia 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zamyia (118).
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 Samia 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #977 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,510 | #1,298 |
| New York | 6 | #2,032 | #1,058 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,109 | #1,453 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 2015 | 119 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 2014 | 76 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,093 | — | — |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,252 | — | — |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 2009 | 104 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 2005 | 133 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 2003 | 117 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 2002 | 88 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 2001 | 78 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,272 | — | — |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,015 | — | — |
| 1995 | 39 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,404 | — | — |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,723 | — | — |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,210 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,643 | — | — |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,765 | — | — |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,845 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,998 | — | — |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,052 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,145 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,945 | — | — |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,182 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,306 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,479 | — | — |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,475 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,208 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,374 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,123 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,351 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,158 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,321 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,608 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,464 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,356 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,766 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,060 | — | — |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,521 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,314 | — | — |
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).