Meaning not yet researched.
Samiya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 84 in 2025. Its best rank was #973 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #973 in 2011; #2,212 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Samiya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,212 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #973.
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Samiya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 84 girls in 2025. Peak: #973 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 264 (2011).
In 2025, 84 US girls were named Samiya, making it the 2,212th most common girls’ name of the year, down 161 places from #2,051 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 95 girls named Samiya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #973, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 264. For comparison, it was #1,325 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samiya in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 6 babies. In all, 4,096 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,818 babies named Samiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,086 US girls were named Samiya; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 138. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,134 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Samiya ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #651 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), Sami (6,727 babies since 1880), Samiyah (5,255 babies since 1880) and Samia (3,580 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Samyha, Zahmiya and Zamiaya 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: Samyha (7), Zahmiya (5), Zamiaya (5).
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 Samiya 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 8 | #651 | #996 |
| New York | 13 | #1,143 | #1,127 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,741 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #2,110 | #935 |
| California | 5 | #3,451 | #2,136 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 2024 | 95 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 2023 | 95 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 2022 | 97 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 2020 | 104 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 2018 | 138 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 2017 | 136 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 2016 | 138 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 2015 | 180 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 2014 | 186 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 2013 | 206 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 2012 | 248 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 2011 | 264 | #973 | — | — |
| 2010 | 202 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 2009 | 244 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 2008 | 244 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 2007 | 233 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 2006 | 215 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 2005 | 148 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,157 | — | — |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,142 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,763 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,724 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,424 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,999 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,383 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,934 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,855 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,582 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,601 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,129 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,226 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,192 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,105 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,748 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,915 | — | — |
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).