Samiah
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 99 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,564since 1981
Samiah over time
Rank among girls' names. Samiah 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 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 |
| 2019 | #4,006 | 36 |
| 2018 | #4,662 | 29 |
| 2017 | #3,053 | 53 |
| 2016 | #2,798 | 61 |
| 2015 | #2,736 | 64 |
| 2014 | #2,648 | 66 |
| 2013 | #2,344 | 78 |
| 2012 | #2,286 | 82 |
| 2011 | #1,982 | 99 |
| 2010 | #2,220 | 87 |
| 2009 | #2,183 | 91 |
| 2008 | #2,122 | 95 |
| 2007 | #2,071 | 98 |
| 2006 | #2,287 | 83 |
| 2005 | #2,296 | 78 |
| 2004 | #2,742 | 59 |
| 2003 | #2,999 | 50 |
| 2002 | #3,461 | 39 |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 |
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| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Samiah! It came in at #9,110, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1989, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Samiah
- 1,304 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #6,325)
- 2,320 spots since 2020 (#4,005 → #6,325)
- 3,589 spots since 2015 (#2,736 → #6,325)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2011 at #1,982 (99 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,768 girls born in 2011 were named Samiah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.9% of all girls named Samiah (655) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 11 | #9,110 (1981) | #9,814 |
| 1990s | 106 | #4,955 (1998) | #8,008 |
| 2000s | 642 | #2,071 (2007) | #2,976 |
| 2010s | 655 | #1,982 (2011) | #2,874 |
| 2020s | 150 | #4,005 (2020) | #5,244 |
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.
Samiah in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
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1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 17,768 of them was named Samiah, which outranked 89.9% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,968Karol100
- #1,968Sapphire100
- #1,968Spencer100
- #1,982Samiah99
- #1,982Aislynn99
- #1,982Aleeyah99
- #1,982Aleksandra99
- #2,000Alysha98
- #2,000Chava98
- #2,000Ebony98
Tied with 17 names at #1,982; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.