Samiya
#2,194 for girls in 2025, 84 births
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 264 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,096since 1979
Samiya over time
Rank among girls' names. Samiya has never cracked the top 900 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 | #2,194 | 84 |
| 2024 | #2,040 | 95 |
| 2023 | #2,050 | 95 |
| 2022 | #2,006 | 97 |
| 2021 | #2,309 | 79 |
| 2020 | #1,860 | 104 |
| 2019 | #1,724 | 120 |
| 2018 | #1,568 | 138 |
| 2017 | #1,600 | 136 |
| 2016 | #1,598 | 138 |
| 2015 | #1,317 | 180 |
| 2014 | #1,284 | 186 |
| 2013 | #1,165 | 206 |
| 2012 | #1,018 | 248 |
| 2011 | #970 | 264 |
| 2010 | #1,197 | 202 |
| 2009 | #1,056 | 244 |
| 2008 | #1,070 | 244 |
| 2007 | #1,109 | 233 |
| 2006 | #1,140 | 215 |
| 2005 | #1,437 | 148 |
| 2004 | #1,554 | 127 |
| 2003 | #1,885 | 97 |
| 2002 | #2,199 | 75 |
| 2001 | #2,171 | 75 |
| 2000 | #3,121 | 44 |
| 1999 | #3,099 | 42 |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #5,531 | 17 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
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| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Samiya! It came in at #9,010, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1986, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Samiya is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#560 · 1 in 2,150
- Florida#834 · 1 in 4,727
- Maryland#920 · 1 in 4,670
- Ohio#963 · 1 in 5,669
- Tennessee#971 · 1 in 5,196
Best ever in a state: #166 in District of Columbia, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #560 | 5 | 1 in 2,150 |
| Florida | #834 | 18 | 1 in 4,727 |
| Maryland | #920 | 5 | 1 in 4,670 |
| Ohio | #963 | 9 | 1 in 5,669 |
| Tennessee | #971 | 6 | 1 in 5,196 |
| New York | #998 | 15 | 1 in 5,779 |
| Michigan | #1,105 | 6 | 1 in 6,707 |
| North Carolina | #1,232 | 6 | 1 in 7,501 |
| Illinois | #1,353 | 6 | 1 in 8,922 |
| Georgia | #1,503 | 5 | 1 in 9,252 |
| Texas | #2,119 | 9 | 1 in 17,657 |
| California | #2,887 | 6 | 1 in 31,579 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Samiya
- 154 spots since 2024 (#2,040 → #2,194)
- 334 spots since 2020 (#1,860 → #2,194)
- 877 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #2,194)
- Biggest jump: 227 spots in 2011 (#1,197 → #970)
- Biggest drop: 48 spots in 2012 (#970 → #1,018)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2011 at #970 (264 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2011
- Highest: 1 in 6,663 girls born in 2011 were named Samiya (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,134 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.4% of all girls named Samiya (1,818) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #9,010 (1979) | #9,010 |
| 1980s | 43 | #6,788 (1987) | #8,801 |
| 1990s | 173 | #3,099 (1999) | #6,564 |
| 2000s | 1,502 | #1,056 (2009) | #1,674 |
| 2010s | 1,818 | #970 (2011) | #1,344 |
| 2020s | 554 | #1,860 (2020) | #2,077 |
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.
Samiya in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 12,327 of them was named Samiya, which outranked 91.4% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,554Sana139
- #1,554Sanai139
- #1,554Zhuri139
- #1,568Samiya138
- #1,568Annaliese138
- #1,568Aryah138
- #1,568Dariana138
- #1,577Baila137
- #1,577Julietta137
- #1,577Kayleen137
Tied with 8 names at #1,568; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.