Samira
#723 for girls in 2025, 387 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 387 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,875since 1961
Samira over time
Rank among girls' names. Samira has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #723 | 387 |
| 2024 | #774 | 364 |
| 2023 | #802 | 350 |
| 2022 | #779 | 365 |
| 2021 | #926 | 287 |
| 2020 | #924 | 279 |
| 2019 | #988 | 261 |
| 2018 | #909 | 295 |
| 2017 | #990 | 262 |
| 2016 | #1,086 | 239 |
| 2015 | #1,124 | 227 |
| 2014 | #1,179 | 208 |
| 2013 | #1,046 | 236 |
| 2012 | #1,096 | 225 |
| 2011 | #1,144 | 214 |
| 2010 | #1,046 | 237 |
| 2009 | #1,068 | 239 |
| 2008 | #1,065 | 245 |
| 2007 | #1,081 | 243 |
| 2006 | #1,077 | 236 |
| 2005 | #970 | 252 |
| 2004 | #993 | 238 |
| 2003 | #788 | 313 |
| 2002 | #908 | 247 |
| 2001 | #1,225 | 165 |
| 2000 | #1,154 | 175 |
| 1999 | #1,333 | 134 |
| 1998 | #1,173 | 160 |
| 1997 | #1,434 | 116 |
| 1996 | #1,318 | 129 |
| 1995 | #1,318 | 126 |
| 1994 | #1,521 | 102 |
| 1993 | #1,460 | 109 |
| 1992 | #1,462 | 108 |
| 1991 | #1,502 | 104 |
| 1990 | #1,503 | 103 |
| 1989 | #1,667 | 82 |
| 1988 | #1,757 | 72 |
| 1987 | #1,899 | 60 |
| 1986 | #1,952 | 56 |
| 1985 | #1,948 | 56 |
| 1984 | #2,149 | 46 |
| 1983 | #1,961 | 52 |
| 1982 | #1,873 | 57 |
| 1981 | #1,912 | 56 |
| 1980 | #2,014 | 52 |
| 1979 | #2,525 | 36 |
| 1978 | #2,269 | 40 |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 |
| 1975 | #2,881 | 25 |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 18 |
| 1973 | #2,565 | 28 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Samira! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1964, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Samira
- 51 spots since 2024 (#774 → #723)
- 201 spots since 2020 (#924 → #723)
- 401 spots since 2015 (#1,124 → #723)
- Biggest jump: 317 spots in 2002 (#1,225 → #908)
- Biggest drop: 205 spots in 2004 (#788 → #993)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2025 at #723 (387 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,153 girls born in 2025 were named Samira (0.02%)
- 27.1% of all girls named Samira (2,404) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 61 | #3,740 (1966) | #4,989 |
| 1970s | 245 | #2,269 (1978) | #3,179 |
| 1980s | 589 | #1,667 (1989) | #1,913 |
| 1990s | 1,191 | #1,173 (1998) | #1,402 |
| 2000s | 2,353 | #788 (2003) | #1,033 |
| 2010s | 2,404 | #909 (2018) | #1,061 |
| 2020s | 2,032 | #723 (2025) | #821 |
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.
Samira in 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
More about 1991
girls
1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 18,029 of them was named Samira, which outranked 90.3% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).