Samara
#320 for girls in 2025, 957 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 1,270 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 22,764since 1949
Samara over time
Rank among girls' names. Samara has never cracked the top 200 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 | #320 | 957 | — | |
| 2024 | #309 | 998 | — | |
| 2023 | #259 | 1,196 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #299 | 1,068 | — | |
| 2021 | #374 | 834 | — | |
| 2020 | #351 | 886 | — | |
| 2019 | #328 | 978 | — | |
| 2018 | #256 | 1,270 | — | |
| 2017 | #324 | 1,009 | — | |
| 2016 | #474 | 670 | — | |
| 2015 | #633 | 452 | — | |
| 2014 | #633 | 452 | — | |
| 2013 | #583 | 493 | — | |
| 2012 | #568 | 516 | — | |
| 2011 | #557 | 525 | — | |
| 2010 | #600 | 488 | — | |
| 2009 | #509 | 594 | — | |
| 2008 | #500 | 629 | — | |
| 2007 | #456 | 707 | — | |
| 2006 | #349 | 948 | — | |
| 2005 | #380 | 825 | — | |
| 2004 | #365 | 857 | — | |
| 2003 | #456 | 656 | — | |
| 2002 | #923 | 242 | — | |
| 2001 | #879 | 261 | — | |
| 2000 | #888 | 248 | — | |
| 1999 | #939 | 223 | — | |
| 1998 | #988 | 204 | — | |
| 1997 | #990 | 197 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,087 | 170 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,021 | 179 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,048 | 174 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,063 | 171 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,202 | 145 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,117 | 159 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,146 | 150 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,239 | 128 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,327 | 108 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,433 | 91 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,293 | 104 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,318 | 101 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,216 | 107 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,252 | 100 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,193 | 114 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,109 | 125 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,250 | 104 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,154 | 115 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,063 | 125 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,102 | 117 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,149 | 101 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,447 | 71 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,386 | 74 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,302 | 78 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,432 | 68 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,244 | 89 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,584 | 60 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,897 | 43 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,431 | 26 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,376 | 26 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,264 | 15 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | — | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Samara! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1954, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Samara
- 11 spots since 2024 (#309 → #320)
- 31 spots since 2020 (#351 → #320)
- 313 spots since 2015 (#633 → #320)
- Biggest jump: 467 spots in 2003 (#923 → #456)
- Biggest drop: 107 spots in 2007 (#349 → #456)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2018 at #256 (1,270 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,339 girls born in 2018 were named Samara (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,679 girls born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 30.1% of all girls named Samara (6,853) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 68 | #3,778 (1955) | #4,877 |
| 1960s | 180 | #1,897 (1969) | #3,430 |
| 1970s | 898 | #1,063 (1978) | #1,286 |
| 1980s | 1,082 | #1,109 (1981) | #1,263 |
| 1990s | 1,772 | #939 (1999) | #1,060 |
| 2000s | 5,967 | #349 (2006) | #571 |
| 2010s | 6,853 | #256 (2018) | #496 |
| 2020s | 5,939 | #259 (2023) | #319 |
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.
Samara in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 1,342 of them was named Samara, which outranked 98.5% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 342,115 of them was named Samara, which outranked 13.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,976 names at #12,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.