Sameer
Sameer was given to 69 boys in 2025, #2,123 among boys’ names; 3,414 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,320 Americans named Sameer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sameer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sameer mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sameer is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Also “a male given name from Arabic.”
Transliteration of Hindi समीर (samīr).
/səˈmir/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sameer?
#2,123 among boys’ names, 2025
Sameer fell from #1,888 in 2015 to #2,123 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.7 to 40.4 per million.
136 babies in 2005, the peak
Sameer peaked in 2005, when 136 boys were given it, #1,178 among boys’ names. The 69 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,123 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,113 | 41.2 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,412 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,400 | 33.8 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,075 | 40.6 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,182 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 48 | #2,685 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,041 | 39.1 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,211 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,132 | 34.8 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #1,888 | 40.7 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,748 | 45.3 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,038 | 35.4 |
| 2012 | 76 | #1,905 | 40.1 |
| 2011 | 93 | #1,642 | 49.0 |
| 2010 | 77 | #1,877 | 40.1 |
| 2009 | 83 | #1,806 | 41.8 |
| 2008 | 90 | #1,706 | 44.1 |
| 2007 | 90 | #1,696 | 43.4 |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,292 | 62.8 |
| 2005 | 136 | #1,178 | 68.1 |
| 2004 | 119 | #1,267 | 60.0 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,316 | 53.7 |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,261 | 55.6 |
| 2001 | 123 | #1,134 | 63.3 |
| 2000 | 99 | #1,306 | 50.4 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,442 | 42.2 |
| 1998 | 52 | #1,891 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 65 | #1,574 | 34.5 |
| 1996 | 55 | #1,719 | 29.0 |
| 1995 | 57 | #1,615 | 29.9 |
| 1994 | 67 | #1,445 | 34.7 |
| 1993 | 57 | #1,590 | 29.1 |
| 1992 | 50 | #1,721 | 25.0 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,786 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 41 | #1,898 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 47 | #1,671 | 23.5 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,542 | 25.1 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,966 | 17.1 |
| 1986 | 39 | #1,659 | 21.2 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,059 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 34 | #1,713 | 18.8 |
| 1983 | 50 | #1,325 | 27.9 |
| 1982 | 45 | #1,437 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 42 | #1,495 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 34 | #1,721 | 19.1 |
| 1979 | 37 | #1,592 | 21.5 |
| 1978 | 36 | #1,593 | 21.9 |
| 1977 | 35 | #1,604 | 21.3 |
| 1976 | 34 | #1,599 | 21.7 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,989 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,968 | 14.6 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,300 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,405 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,303 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,631 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,908 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,060 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sameer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sameer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sameer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sameer, and how old are they?
3,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,414 Americans ever recorded as Sameer. The median Sameer alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 5,677 people named Sameer (23 women and girls, 5,654 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,974 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 255 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 701 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 863 |
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 Sameer born?
The states with the most babies named Sameer are New York, California and Florida, with 73% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 11 | #1,106 | 2.5× |
| California | 11 | #1,566 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,046 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,226 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,128 | 0.1× |
Where Sameer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sameer is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 2.5 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 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 Sameer 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 18,783 babies since 1880, Sameer is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 642 babies (11%), 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 Sameer
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 Sameer and names like it
- Compare Sameer and SamirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSameer peaked in 2005.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sameer since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Sameer: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Sameer.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sameer alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.