Saman — #11223 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Saman

The Social Security Administration has registered 288 babies named Saman between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Saman currently holds the #11223 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Saman is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 118 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Saman performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 91 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Saman shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Saman in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Saman in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 288 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.