Samanta
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 89 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,862since 1972
Samanta over time
Rank among girls' names. Samanta 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 |
| 2012 | #2,708 | 65 |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 |
| 2010 | #3,409 | 47 |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 |
| 2008 | #2,334 | 83 |
| 2007 | #2,433 | 77 |
| 2006 | #2,602 | 69 |
| 2005 | #1,950 | 98 |
| 2004 | #2,117 | 85 |
| 2003 | #2,062 | 86 |
| 2002 | #1,955 | 90 |
| 2001 | #2,096 | 79 |
| 2000 | #1,900 | 89 |
| 1999 | #2,471 | 58 |
| 1998 | #2,846 | 46 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 |
| 1995 | #3,220 | 35 |
| 1994 | #2,661 | 46 |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 |
| 1992 | #3,267 | 34 |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 |
| 1989 | #3,045 | 35 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
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| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Samanta! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Samanta
- 2,245 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #5,722)
- 361 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #5,722)
- 741 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #5,722)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2000 at #1,900 (89 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,856 girls born in 2005 were named Samanta (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,900 in 2000, was only 1 in 20,405 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.8% of all girls named Samanta (816) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 24 | #7,567 (1977) | #8,000 |
| 1980s | 164 | #3,045 (1989) | #5,479 |
| 1990s | 404 | #2,471 (1999) | #3,053 |
| 2000s | 816 | #1,900 (2000) | #2,234 |
| 2010s | 343 | #2,708 (2012) | #4,639 |
| 2020s | 111 | #5,465 (2022) | #6,390 |
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.
Samanta in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 20,405 of them was named Samanta, which outranked 89.2% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,885Soleil90
- #1,885Trinitee90
- #1,885Tyesha90
- #1,900Samanta89
- #1,900Alaysha89
- #1,900Alexius89
- #1,900Alisia89
- #1,923Adison88
- #1,923Citlaly88
- #1,923Deonna88
Tied with 22 names at #1,900; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.