Sama
Sama was given to 186 girls in 2025, #1,221 among girls’ names; 1,819 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Sama and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sama by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sama?
#1,221 among girls’ names, 2025
Sama rose from #2,804 in 2015 to #1,221 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.12 per 1,000.
192 babies in 2025, the peak
Sama peaked in 2025, when 192 babies were given it (186 girls, #1,221 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 165 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 186 | #1,221 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 165 | #1,377 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,771 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 122 | #1,719 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,813 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,190 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,966 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,296 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 100 | #1,987 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,264 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,804 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,386 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,722 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,083 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,447 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,194 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,462 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,624 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,648 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,070 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,960 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,044 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,784 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,634 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,631 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,439 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,163 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,753 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,026 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,515 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,621 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sama a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sama has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 34 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sama: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sama, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,819 Americans ever recorded as Sama. The median Sama alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,837 people named Sama (1,729 women and girls, 108 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,042 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Sama rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 30 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 426 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,350 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sama born?
The states with the most babies named Sama are California, Texas and Michigan, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 27 | #1,020 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 22 | #1,218 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 14 | #586 | 1.9× |
| New York | 13 | #1,142 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 10 | #914 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,413 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #836 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,249 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 7 | #893 | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #750 | 0.2× |
Where Sama is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sama is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1983 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sama with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,611 babies since 1880, Sama is the fifth most given (9.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 192 of their 540 babies (36%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sama
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sama and names like it
- Compare Sama and SamiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSama peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sama since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sama.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sama alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.