In 2025, 126 US girls were named Samiyah, making it the 1,650th most common girls’ name of the year, down 211 places from #1,439 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 154 girls named Samiyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #789, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 343. For comparison, it was #1,048 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samiyah in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 5,255 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,580 babies named Samiyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,736 US girls were named Samiyah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 257. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,756 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Samiyah ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #760 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Samiya (4,096 babies since 1880), Samia (3,580 babies since 1880), Samya (2,854 babies since 1880) and Samiah (1,564 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Samyah, Zamiya and Zamiah are summarised on this page.