Samari
Samari is given to both girls and boys: 51 girls and 23 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,161 among girls’ names and #4,511 among boys’, #4,343 among all names counting both); 2,198 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Samari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samari?
#3,161 among girls’ names, 2025
Samari rose from #4,213 in 2015 to #3,161 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 31.7 per million.
130 babies in 2008, the peak
Samari peaked in 2008, when 130 babies were given it (87 girls, #2,265 among girls’ names). The 74 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 57% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,161 | 23 | #4,511 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,409 | 31 | #3,674 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,640 | 25 | #4,314 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,209 | 21 | #4,817 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,289 | 22 | #4,596 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,990 | 24 | #4,251 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,374 | 16 | #5,752 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,832 | 19 | #5,068 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,615 | 15 | #6,016 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,070 | 22 | #4,589 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,213 | 16 | #5,693 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,218 | 18 | #5,218 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,306 | 23 | #4,286 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,999 | 10 | #8,027 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,833 | 24 | #4,192 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,337 | 30 | #3,613 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,480 | 33 | #3,386 |
| 2008 | 87 | #2,265 | 43 | #2,819 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,160 | 29 | #3,673 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,845 | 27 | #3,758 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,043 | 34 | #3,072 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,641 | 50 | #2,298 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,792 | 23 | #3,819 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,640 | 35 | #2,735 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,419 | 40 | #2,469 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,862 | 22 | #3,727 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,152 | 11 | #5,965 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,641 | 13 | #5,110 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,602 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,338 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,609 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,647 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,959 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,054 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,235 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,113 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Samari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,198 Americans recorded as Samari, 68% are girls and 32% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Samari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samari, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,198 Americans ever recorded as Samari. The median Samari alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,570 people named Samari (1,081 women and girls, 489 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,723 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 59 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 900 |
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 Samari born?
The states with the most babies named Samari are Texas, California and Ohio, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,876 | 0.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,721 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,663 | 0.2× |
Where Samari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samari is most over-represented in Florida: since 1990 it was given 1.1 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 Samari 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 43,826 babies since 1880, Samari is the fourth most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 74 of their 1,742 babies (4.2%), the fifth 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 Samari
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 Samari and names like it
- Compare Samari and SamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSamari peaked in 2008.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samari since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Samari.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samari alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.