Samiya

Where Samiya comes from

Samiya hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    Samiya Mumtaz born
    Pakistani actress
  2. 1979
    First appearance
    #9,010 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2003
    Samiya Imad Farooqui born
    Indian badminton player
  4. 2011
    Peak, #970
    264 babies named Samiya — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,724.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Samiya Mumtaz · Pakistani actress, born 1970
  • Samiya Imad Farooqui · Indian badminton player, born 2003
  • Samiya Bashir · American writer, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.