Meaning not yet researched.
Samya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,121 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,121 in 2007; #5,076 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Samya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,076 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #1,121.
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Samya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,121 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 232 (2007).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Samya, making it the 5,076th most common girls’ name of the year, down 203 places from #4,873 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 28 girls named Samya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,121, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 232. For comparison, it was #2,994 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samya in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 6 babies. In all, 2,854 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,568 babies named Samya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 400 US girls were named Samya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tamya (2,790 babies since 1880), Sammy (45,140 babies since 1880), Sami (6,727 babies since 1880) and Samiyah (5,255 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zahmya 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: Zahmya (21).
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 Samya 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 | 26 | #5,076 | — | — |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,873 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,923 | — | — |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,585 | — | — |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,830 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,987 | — | — |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,240 | — | — |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 2015 | 58 | #2,994 | — | — |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 2013 | 100 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 2012 | 173 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 2011 | 176 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 2008 | 215 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 2007 | 232 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 2006 | 197 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 2005 | 181 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 2004 | 167 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 2003 | 114 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,922 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,831 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,416 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,276 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,500 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,385 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,268 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,042 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,419 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,107 | — | — |
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).