Sama
#1,219 for girls in 2025, 186 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 186 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,813since 1983
Sama over time
Rank among girls' names. Sama has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,219 | 186 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,374 | 165 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,762 | 116 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,710 | 122 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,801 | 112 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,170 | 83 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,961 | 99 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,275 | 80 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,976 | 100 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,247 | 85 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,773 | 63 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,371 | 77 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,706 | 64 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,407 | 47 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,949 | 26 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | — | |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | — | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 | — | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | — | |
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| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | — | |
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| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | — | |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sama! It came in at #10,275, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sama
- 155 spots since 2024 (#1,374 → #1,219)
- 951 spots since 2020 (#2,170 → #1,219)
- 1,554 spots since 2015 (#2,773 → #1,219)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2025 at #1,219 (186 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,641 girls born in 2025 were named Sama (0.01%)
- 43.2% of all girls named Sama (784) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 11 | #10,275 (1983) | #10,331 |
| 1990s | 54 | #5,583 (1998) | #9,754 |
| 2000s | 242 | #4,370 (2009) | #5,647 |
| 2010s | 722 | #1,961 (2019) | #2,592 |
| 2020s | 784 | #1,219 (2025) | #1,673 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sama in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 8,641 of them was named Sama, which outranked 93.0% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 284,679 of them was named Sama, which outranked 23.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #9,714Zyn7
- #9,714Zyonn7
- #9,714Zyree7
- #10,695Sama6
- #10,695Aadhyan6
- #10,695Aadish6
- #10,695Aamari6
- #12,008Aadan5
- #12,008Aadhavan5
- #12,008Aalam5
Tied with 1,312 names at #10,695; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.