Samarth
Samarth was given to 59 boys in 2025, #2,355 among boys’ names; 1,470 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Samarth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samarth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Samarth mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Samarth is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “capable, competent” (समर्थ).
Borrowed from Sanskrit समर्थ (samartha, “capable, competent”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Samarth?
#2,355 among boys’ names, 2025
Samarth fell from #1,801 in 2015 to #2,355 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 43.8 to 34.5 per million.
97 babies in 2018, the peak
Samarth peaked in 2018, when 97 boys were given it, #1,662 among boys’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,355 | 34.5 |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,040 | 43.5 |
| 2023 | 78 | #1,982 | 45.6 |
| 2022 | 78 | #1,978 | 44.7 |
| 2021 | 81 | #1,900 | 46.3 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,230 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 77 | #1,930 | 42.9 |
| 2018 | 97 | #1,662 | 53.4 |
| 2017 | 81 | #1,841 | 43.8 |
| 2016 | 80 | #1,872 | 42.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | #1,801 | 43.8 |
| 2014 | 96 | #1,625 | 50.0 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,037 | 35.4 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,167 | 32.7 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,140 | 32.6 |
| 2010 | 48 | #2,573 | 25.0 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,096 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,996 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,175 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,974 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,370 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,058 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,579 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,866 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,402 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,225 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,990 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,734 | 4.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,388 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Samarth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samarth has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samarth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samarth, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,470 Americans ever recorded as Samarth. The median Samarth alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,393 people named Samarth (8 women and girls, 1,385 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,044 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,010 |
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 Samarth born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,233 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #747 | 3.2× |
Where Samarth is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samarth is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1996 it was given 3.2 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 boys’ 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 Samarth 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,563 babies since 1880, Samarth is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 78 babies (76%), again the 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 Samarth
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 Samarth and names like it
- Compare Samarth and SamrathBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSamarth peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samarth since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Samarth: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Samarth.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Samarth alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.