Samiyah
#1,643 for girls in 2025, 126 births
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 343 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,255since 1982
Samiyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Samiyah 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,643 | 126 |
| 2024 | #1,436 | 154 |
| 2023 | #1,681 | 123 |
| 2022 | #1,490 | 146 |
| 2021 | #1,354 | 163 |
| 2020 | #1,287 | 173 |
| 2019 | #1,255 | 185 |
| 2018 | #1,229 | 190 |
| 2017 | #1,131 | 219 |
| 2016 | #1,030 | 257 |
| 2015 | #1,047 | 252 |
| 2014 | #991 | 269 |
| 2013 | #884 | 292 |
| 2012 | #817 | 328 |
| 2011 | #789 | 343 |
| 2010 | #1,021 | 245 |
| 2009 | #995 | 266 |
| 2008 | #1,108 | 233 |
| 2007 | #1,044 | 252 |
| 2006 | #1,162 | 209 |
| 2005 | #1,400 | 153 |
| 2004 | #1,654 | 117 |
| 2003 | #1,676 | 114 |
| 2002 | #2,018 | 86 |
| 2001 | #2,411 | 65 |
| 2000 | #3,020 | 46 |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 |
| 1998 | #3,173 | 39 |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 |
| 1996 | #3,632 | 30 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
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| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2011 at #789 (343 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2011–2014
- 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%)
- 49.1% of all girls named Samiyah (2,580) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 21 | #6,156 (1986) | #9,117 |
| 1990s | 228 | #2,854 (1999) | #5,797 |
| 2000s | 1,541 | #995 (2009) | #1,649 |
| 2010s | 2,580 | #789 (2011) | #1,019 |
| 2020s | 885 | #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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
More about 2022
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1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 11,234 of them was named Samiyah, which outranked 91.6% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,486Safiya147
- #1,486Skylynn147
- #1,486Ziya147
- #1,490Samiyah146
- #1,490Anniston146
- #1,490Briley146
- #1,490Geneva146
- #1,497Aiza145
- #1,497Cooper145
- #1,497Kamille145
Tied with 6 names at #1,490; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.