Meaning not yet researched.
Samir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 434 in 2025. Its best rank was #586 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #586 in 2023; #643 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Samir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#643 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #586.
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Samir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 434 boys in 2025. Peak: #586 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 488 (2023).
In 2025, 434 US boys were named Samir, making it the 643rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 54 places from #589 in 2024. That is 52 fewer than the 486 boys named Samir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #586, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 488. For comparison, it was #738 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samir in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 11,163 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,173 babies named Samir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,023 US boys were named Samir; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 488. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Samir ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #164 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sameer (3,414 babies since 1880), Zamir (4,295 babies since 1880) and Samar (2,385 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Samer, Zahmir and Zamar 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: Samer (1,463), Zahmir (715), Zamar (624), Sahmir (243), Zamier (197), Zamire (148), Samier (136), Zameir (108), Saamir (92), Samere (82), Samiir (77), Sameir (73), 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 Samir 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 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 6 | #164 | #235 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #357 | #514 |
| Georgia | 30 | #392 | #775 |
| New York | 44 | #398 | #437 |
| Maryland | 11 | #470 | #486 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #482 | #923 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #484 | #392 |
| Virginia | 16 | #493 | #536 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #520 | #358 |
| Alabama | 10 | #520 | — |
| Ohio | 20 | #533 | #556 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #536 | #883 |
| Illinois | 18 | #543 | #557 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #544 | #438 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #551 | #550 |
| Florida | 32 | #552 | #647 |
| Michigan | 12 | #671 | #1,209 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #703 | #889 |
| California | 36 | #742 | #955 |
| Arizona | 8 | #770 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #771 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #775 | #603 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #791 | — |
| Texas | 34 | #804 | #1,143 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #829 | #1,027 |
| Colorado | 6 | #833 | #771 |
| Indiana | 6 | #929 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 434 | #643 |
| 2024 | — | — | 486 | #589 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,190 | 488 | #586 |
| 2022 | — | — | 483 | #592 |
| 2021 | — | — | 394 | #677 |
| 2020 | — | — | 413 | #649 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,568 | 362 | #696 |
| 2018 | — | — | 326 | #734 |
| 2017 | — | — | 335 | #720 |
| 2016 | — | — | 302 | #787 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,656 | 331 | #738 |
| 2014 | — | — | 310 | #759 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,949 | 290 | #775 |
| 2012 | — | — | 301 | #761 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,148 | 319 | #717 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,332 | 266 | #807 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,902 | 315 | #739 |
| 2008 | — | — | 255 | #848 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,986 | 257 | #833 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,501 | 244 | #832 |
| 2005 | — | — | 247 | #789 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,280 | 222 | #814 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,956 | 217 | #802 |
| 2002 | — | — | 198 | #840 |
| 2001 | — | — | 201 | #821 |
| 2000 | — | — | 193 | #834 |
| 1999 | — | — | 164 | #915 |
| 1998 | — | — | 167 | #869 |
| 1997 | — | — | 147 | #929 |
| 1996 | — | — | 123 | #1,017 |
| 1995 | — | — | 118 | #1,027 |
| 1994 | — | — | 128 | #979 |
| 1993 | — | — | 112 | #1,045 |
| 1992 | — | — | 124 | #972 |
| 1991 | — | — | 121 | #971 |
| 1990 | — | — | 121 | #947 |
| 1989 | — | — | 104 | #1,008 |
| 1988 | — | — | 94 | #1,010 |
| 1987 | — | — | 94 | #980 |
| 1986 | — | — | 73 | #1,099 |
| 1985 | — | — | 98 | #922 |
| 1984 | — | — | 93 | #916 |
| 1983 | — | — | 80 | #992 |
| 1982 | — | — | 90 | #949 |
| 1981 | — | — | 65 | #1,142 |
| 1980 | — | — | 86 | #973 |
| 1979 | — | — | 79 | #1,003 |
| 1978 | — | — | 77 | #988 |
| 1977 | — | — | 79 | #968 |
| 1976 | — | — | 49 | #1,261 |
| 1975 | — | — | 59 | #1,098 |
| 1974 | — | — | 59 | #1,080 |
| 1973 | — | — | 49 | #1,183 |
| 1972 | — | — | 39 | #1,360 |
| 1971 | — | — | 34 | #1,492 |
| 1970 | — | — | 38 | #1,369 |
| 1969 | — | — | 41 | #1,248 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,176 |
| 1967 | — | — | 17 | #1,964 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,443 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,747 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,526 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #3,021 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,263 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,610 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,512 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,464 |
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).