Samar — #2288 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Samar

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,218 babies named Samar between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Samar currently holds the #2288 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 92 babies received it in a single year. Samar is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,078 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Samar performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 555 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Samar shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 189 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Samar in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Samar 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 1,218 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.