Samaya
Samaya was given to 116 girls in 2025, #1,756 among girls’ names; 3,164 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,140 Americans named Samaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samaya?
#1,756 among girls’ names, 2025
Samaya rose from #1,791 in 2015 to #1,756 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 65.5 to 72.2 per million.
221 babies in 2007, the peak
Samaya peaked in 2007, when 221 girls were given it, #1,161 among girls’ names. The 116 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,756 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,992 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,207 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,342 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 96 | #2,021 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,133 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,269 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,158 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 121 | #1,749 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 123 | #1,727 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,791 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,827 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,538 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,219 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 211 | #1,162 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,736 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 177 | #1,352 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 195 | #1,280 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 221 | #1,161 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 170 | #1,364 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 106 | #1,847 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 90 | #2,035 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,253 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,244 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,302 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,322 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,174 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,540 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,192 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,665 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,323 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,741 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samaya, and how old are they?
3,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,164 Americans ever recorded as Samaya. The median Samaya alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,263 people named Samaya (2,248 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,603 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 27 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,340 |
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 Samaya born?
The states with the most babies named Samaya are California, Texas and Florida, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,470 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,698 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,414 | 1.5× |
| New York | 9 | #1,504 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 8 | #948 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,323 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,596 | 0.8× |
Where Samaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samaya is most over-represented in Florida: since 1980 it was given 1.5 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 Samaya 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 22,293 babies since 1880, Samaya is the fourth most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 116 of their 629 babies (18%), 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 Samaya
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 Samaya and names like it
- Compare Samaya and SamiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSamaya peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Samaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.