Meaning not yet researched.
Samira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 387 in 2025. Its best rank was #723 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Samira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#723 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Samira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 387 girls in 2025. Peak: #723 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 387 (2025).
In 2025, 387 US girls were named Samira, making it the 723rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 51 places from #774 in 2024. That is 23 more than the 364 girls named Samira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #723, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 387. For comparison, it was #1,125 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samira in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 8,875 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,404 babies named Samira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,089 US girls were named Samira; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 387. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,153 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Samira ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #416 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Samara (22,769 babies since 1880), Samarah (2,051 babies since 1880), Samirah (1,958 babies since 1880) and Zamira (1,702 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zamirah, Zahmira and Zamirra 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 and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zamirah (589), Zahmira (13), Zamirra (11), Samirrah (6).
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 Samira 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 14 | #416 | #732 |
| New York | 42 | #420 | #420 |
| Florida | 35 | #529 | #1,339 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #536 | #340 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #591 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #593 | — |
| California | 53 | #605 | #1,424 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #608 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #671 | #832 |
| Illinois | 14 | #704 | #1,267 |
| Maryland | 7 | #714 | #872 |
| Indiana | 9 | #716 | — |
| North Carolina | 14 | #725 | #1,555 |
| Michigan | 11 | #733 | — |
| Virginia | 10 | #753 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #772 | — |
| Texas | 36 | #837 | #1,696 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #862 | #1,378 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,016 | #1,042 |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,018 | #1,052 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,024 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,035 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,055 | #1,723 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,060 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,283 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 387 | #723 | — | — |
| 2024 | 364 | #774 | — | — |
| 2023 | 350 | #802 | — | — |
| 2022 | 365 | #781 | — | — |
| 2021 | 287 | #927 | — | — |
| 2020 | 279 | #928 | — | — |
| 2019 | 261 | #992 | — | — |
| 2018 | 295 | #913 | — | — |
| 2017 | 262 | #993 | — | — |
| 2016 | 239 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 2015 | 227 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 2014 | 208 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 2011 | 214 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 2010 | 237 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 2009 | 239 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 2008 | 245 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 2007 | 243 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 2006 | 236 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 2005 | 252 | #975 | — | — |
| 2004 | 238 | #995 | — | — |
| 2003 | 313 | #792 | — | — |
| 2002 | 247 | #908 | — | — |
| 2001 | 165 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 2000 | 175 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1999 | 134 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1998 | 160 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1997 | 116 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1996 | 129 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1995 | 126 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1994 | 102 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1993 | 109 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1991 | 104 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1990 | 103 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,662 | — | — |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,480 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,437 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,901 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,908 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,765 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,609 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,801 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,357 | — | — |
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).