Samar
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #2,304 for boys in 2025, 60 births
Given to boys 53.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 92 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,278since 1973
Samar over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #4,661 | 29 | #2,304 | 60 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | #2,288 | 62 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #1,782 | 92 |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 | #1,823 | 85 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 | #2,094 | 67 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 | #1,937 | 76 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 | #2,189 | 62 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 | #2,230 | 60 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | #2,594 | 46 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 | #3,115 | 36 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 | #3,453 | 31 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #2,846 | 37 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #4,621 | 26 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,573 | 33 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #4,125 | 26 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Samar! It came in at #4,505, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Samar
- 16 spots since 2024 (#2,288 → #2,304)
- 210 spots since 2020 (#2,094 → #2,304)
- 115 spots since 2015 (#2,189 → #2,304)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2022 at #1,782 (92 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,978 boys born in 2022 were named Samar (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,468 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.4% of all boys named Samar (555) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2010, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 26 | #4,505 (1973) | #4,634 |
| 1980s | 32 | #4,234 (1982) | #5,713 |
| 1990s | 50 | #5,466 (1998) | #7,002 |
| 2000s | 193 | #2,846 (2005) | #5,211 |
| 2010s | 555 | #1,937 (2018) | #2,495 |
| 2020s | 422 | #1,782 (2022) | #2,118 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Samar in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 73,480 of them was named Samar, which outranked 68.7% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,314Zarielle23
- #5,314Zlata23
- #5,314Zulay23
- #5,487Samar22
- #5,487Adalena22
- #5,487Adamari22
- #5,487Adayah22
- #5,667Abeeha21
- #5,667Addley21
- #5,667Adelita21
Tied with 179 names at #5,487; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 25,762 of them was named Samar, which outranked 85.1% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,069Shaan68
- #2,069Triston68
- #2,069Zyir68
- #2,094Samar67
- #2,094Abdullahi67
- #2,094Ariyon67
- #2,094Darion67
- #2,113Alpha66
- #2,113Arlen66
- #2,113Banner66
Tied with 18 names at #2,094; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.