Samatha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Samatha

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,202 babies named Samatha between 1964 and 2018, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Samatha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 248 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Samatha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,609 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Samatha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 298 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Samatha in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Samatha 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 4,202 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.