Samanta
Samanta was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,875 among girls’ names; 1,862 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,840 Americans named Samanta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samanta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Samanta mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Samanta is “a female given name from English, equivalent to English Samantha”
/saˈmanta/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Samanta?
#5,875 among girls’ names, 2025
Samanta fell from #5,101 in 2015 to #5,875 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 13.1 per million.
98 babies in 2005, the peak
Samanta peaked in 2005, when 98 girls were given it, #1,961 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,875 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,345 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,625 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,602 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,915 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,283 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,758 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,084 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,310 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,259 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,101 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,248 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,632 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,730 | 36.9 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,901 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,460 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,931 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,350 | 43.9 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,454 | 40.0 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,627 | 36.3 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,961 | 53.0 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,130 | 46.3 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,079 | 47.1 |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,961 | 50.1 |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,109 | 43.9 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,917 | 49.0 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,493 | 32.7 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,879 | 26.0 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,141 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,883 | 24.0 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,271 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,691 | 25.8 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,809 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,326 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,608 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,880 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,083 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,139 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,390 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,132 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,603 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,914 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,738 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,185 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,834 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,980 | 4.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,218 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,972 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,786 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,309 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samanta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samanta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samanta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samanta, and how old are they?
1,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,862 Americans ever recorded as Samanta. The median Samanta alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,674 people named Samanta (2,656 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,736 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 408 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 301 |
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 Samanta born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,714 | 1.2× |
Where Samanta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samanta is most over-represented in California: since 1972 it was given 1.7 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 Samanta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Samanta
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 Samanta and names like it
- Compare Samanta and KailiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSamanta peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samanta since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Samanta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Samanta.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samanta alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.