Samay
Samay was given to 43 boys in 2025, #2,925 among boys’ names; 486 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Samay mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Samay is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “time” (समय).
Borrowed from Sanskrit समय (samaya, “time”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Samay?
#2,925 among boys’ names, 2025
Samay rose from #8,601 in 2015 to #2,925 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 25.2 per million.
43 babies in 2025, the peak
Samay peaked in 2025, when 43 boys were given it, #2,925 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 35 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #2,925 | 25.2 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,381 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,315 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,274 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,751 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,670 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,348 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,637 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #7,019 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,513 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,601 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,246 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,867 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,956 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,994 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,980 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,189 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,336 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,470 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,730 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,158 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,615 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,180 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,440 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,403 | 4.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,282 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Samay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 486 Americans recorded as Samay, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 43 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Samay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samay, and how old are they?
An estimated 481 Americans named Samay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 493 people named Samay (112 women and girls, 381 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 308 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 54,078 babies since 1880, Samay is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 414 babies (10%), the third 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 Samay
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 Samay and names like it
- Compare Samay and SammyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samay since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Samay: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Samay.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Samay alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.