Samaria
Samaria was given to 104 girls in 2025, #1,895 among girls’ names; 4,511 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,450 Americans named Samaria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samaria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samaria?
#1,895 among girls’ names, 2025
Samaria rose from #2,086 in 2015 to #1,895 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 52.7 to 64.7 per million.
241 babies in 2007, the peak
Samaria peaked in 2007, when 241 girls were given it, #1,084 among girls’ names. The 104 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104 | #1,895 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 118 | #1,729 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,960 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,246 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 89 | #2,127 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,775 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,706 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,836 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,033 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,860 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 94 | #2,086 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,022 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,614 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 140 | #1,565 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 153 | #1,465 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 161 | #1,428 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,462 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 195 | #1,279 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 241 | #1,084 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 209 | #1,165 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 206 | #1,138 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 203 | #1,125 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 175 | #1,216 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 116 | #1,603 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,328 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 125 | #1,476 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,510 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 126 | #1,370 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 91 | #1,715 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,032 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,947 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,835 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,231 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,149 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,505 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,590 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,375 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,866 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,828 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,616 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,248 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,843 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,429 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,679 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,134 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,920 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,576 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,042 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,580 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,121 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,270 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,304 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,906 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,837 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,855 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,404 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,606 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,799 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,424 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,450 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samaria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samaria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samaria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samaria, and how old are they?
4,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,511 Americans ever recorded as Samaria. The median Samaria alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 3,376 people named Samaria (3,364 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,923 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 162 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 575 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,160 |
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 Samaria born?
The states with the most babies named Samaria are North Carolina, Florida and Texas, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 10 | #963 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,525 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,592 | 0.9× |
| California | 7 | #2,722 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,218 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,509 | 2.2× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,282 | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 5 | #926 | 0.8× |
Where Samaria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samaria is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1952 it was given 2.2 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 Samaria 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, Samaria is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 104 of their 1,742 babies (6.0%), again the third most given.
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 Samaria
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 Samaria and names like it
- Compare Samaria and SamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSamaria peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samaria since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Samaria.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samaria alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.