Samiyah

#1,643 for girls in 2025, 126 births

Peak · girls
2011 · 343 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
5,255
since 1982

Samiyah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Samiyah has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202016peak #789, 2011girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#1,643126
2024#1,436154
2023#1,681123
2022#1,490146
2021#1,354163
2020#1,287173
2019#1,255185
2018#1,229190
2017#1,131219
2016#1,030257
2015#1,047252
2014#991269
2013#884292
2012#817328
2011#789343
2010#1,021245
2009#995266
2008#1,108233
2007#1,044252
2006#1,162209
2005#1,400153
2004#1,654117
2003#1,676114
2002#2,01886
2001#2,41165
2000#3,02046
1999#2,85447
1998#3,17339
1997#2,97740
1996#3,63230
1995#6,25714
1994#5,98415
1993#6,62213
1992#5,71816
1991#11,5096
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First appearance
1982

The first year at least five girls were named Samiyah! It came in at #10,517, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1982–1985, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Samiyah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 207 spots since 2024 (#1,436#1,643)
  • 356 spots since 2020 (#1,287#1,643)
  • 596 spots since 2015 (#1,047#1,643)
  • Biggest jump: 232 spots in 2011 (#1,021#789)
  • Biggest drop: 107 spots in 2014 (#884#991)
Rise & fade · girls
29 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1982
  • Peaked 2011 at #789 (343 births)
  • Births halved by 2021, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2011–2014
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,128
  • Highest: 1 in 5,128 girls born in 2011 were named Samiyah (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 12,756 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 49.1% of all girls named Samiyah (2,580) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s21#6,156 (1986)#9,117
1990s228#2,854 (1999)#5,797
2000s1,541#995 (2009)#1,649
2010s2,580#789 (2011)#1,019
2020s885#1,287 (2020)#1,482

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.

Samiyah in 2016

girls
#1,030
257 births · 1 in 6,895 girls

Top girls' names in 2016

  1. #1Emma19,550
  2. #2Olivia19,414
  3. #3Ava16,354
  4. #4Sophia16,185
  5. #5Isabella14,863
  6. #6Mia14,464
  7. #7Charlotte13,118
  8. #8Abigail11,796
  9. #9Emily11,006
  10. #10Amelia10,809
  11. #1,030Samiyah257
More about 2016

girls

1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 6,895 of them was named Samiyah, which outranked 94.5% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Samiyah
  1. #1,026Jurnee258
  2. #1,026Mattie258
  3. #1,026Raylee258
  4. #1,030Samiyah257
  5. #1,030Cindy257
  6. #1,030Etta257
  7. #1,030Kamiyah257
  8. #1,034Arleth256
  9. #1,034Dixie256
  10. #1,034Marlowe256

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,389Kehlani#3,254#865
  2. 612Royalty#1,146#534
  3. 481Saoirse#1,448#967
  4. 396Ophelia#978#582
  5. 364Aitana#915#551
Fallers
  1. 542Caitlin#610#1,152
  2. 451Caitlyn#598#1,049
  3. 397Katelynn#652#1,049
  4. 382Kaitlynn#989#1,371
  5. 340Neriah#946#1,286

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2016