Meaning not yet researched.
Samiah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,999 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,999 in 2011; #6,509 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Samiah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,509 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,999.
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Samiah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,999 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 99 (2011).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Samiah, making it the 6,509th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,384 places from #5,125 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 26 girls named Samiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,999, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 99. For comparison, it was #2,770 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samiah in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 6 babies. In all, 1,564 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 655 babies named Samiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 329 US girls were named Samiah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sami (6,727 babies since 1880), Samiyah (5,255 babies since 1880), Samiya (4,096 babies since 1880) and Samia (3,580 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zamyiah 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: Zamyiah (122).
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 Samiah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,509 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,125 | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,358 | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,004 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,134 | — | — |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,065 | — | — |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,061 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,754 | — | — |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 2015 | 64 | #2,770 | — | — |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 2009 | 91 | #2,187 | — | — |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,283 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,389 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,094 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,641 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,965 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,447 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,382 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,009 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,243 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,965 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,885 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,103 | — | — |
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).