Samarah — #2411 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Samarah

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,993 babies named Samarah between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Samarah currently holds the #2411 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 120 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Samarah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 776 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Samarah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 263 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Samarah in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Samarah 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 1,993 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.