Samaira
Samaira was given to 92 girls in 2025, #2,059 among girls’ names; 1,658 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,650 Americans named Samaira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samaira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samaira?
#2,059 among girls’ names, 2025
Samaira rose from #2,377 in 2015 to #2,059 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 43.7 to 57.2 per million.
120 babies in 2020, the peak
Samaira peaked in 2020, when 120 girls were given it, #1,702 among girls’ names. The 92 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,059 | 57.2 |
| 2024 | 85 | #2,229 | 52.5 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,463 | 45.5 |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,989 | 60.4 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,814 | 68.3 |
| 2020 | 120 | #1,702 | 74.2 |
| 2019 | 118 | #1,754 | 70.3 |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,877 | 63.5 |
| 2017 | 83 | #2,266 | 48.1 |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,361 | 45.1 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,377 | 43.7 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,387 | 43.1 |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,527 | 40.5 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,729 | 36.9 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,832 | 35.2 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,507 | 25.9 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,087 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,769 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,712 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,246 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,464 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,163 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,918 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,347 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,838 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,657 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,620 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,936 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,823 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,125 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,515 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samaira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samaira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samaira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samaira, and how old are they?
1,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,658 Americans ever recorded as Samaira. The median Samaira alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,048 people named Samaira (1,044 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 445 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
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 Samaira born?
The states with the most babies named Samaira are Texas, California and New York, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,772 | 0.8× |
| California | 11 | #1,927 | 1.3× |
| New York | 9 | #1,503 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #924 | 2.3× |
| Washington | 8 | #802 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,848 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,348 | 0.8× |
Where Samaira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samaira is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1993 it was given 2.3 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 Samaira 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 45,148 babies since 1880, Samaira is the seventh most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 1,768 babies (5.2%), the fourth 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 Samaira
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 Samaira and names like it
- Compare Samaira and SamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSamaira peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samaira since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Samaira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Samaira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.