Samer
Samer was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,381 among boys’ names; 1,463 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Samer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samer?
#6,381 among boys’ names, 2025
Samer fell from #5,243 in 2015 to #6,381 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 8.2 per million.
55 babies in 1993, the peak
Samer peaked in 1993, when 55 babies were given it (50 boys, #1,732 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,381 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,204 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,870 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,757 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 12 | #7,017 | 6.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,606 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,989 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,734 | 8.6 |
| 2015 | 18 | #5,243 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,667 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 19 | #4,940 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,244 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,514 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,810 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,271 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #4,009 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,674 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,759 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,689 | 20.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,616 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,029 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,589 | 19.6 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,914 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,790 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,332 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,188 | 22.0 |
| 1997 | 50 | #1,876 | 26.5 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,008 | 23.2 |
| 1995 | 48 | #1,826 | 25.2 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,706 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 50 | #1,732 | 25.5 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,075 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,125 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,034 | 18.0 |
| 1989 | 39 | #1,909 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 42 | #1,696 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 40 | #1,704 | 21.4 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,751 | 19.5 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,911 | 16.8 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,146 | 13.9 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,783 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,984 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,937 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,103 | 14.6 |
| 1979 | 34 | #1,704 | 19.7 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,191 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,896 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 25 | #1,985 | 15.9 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,519 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,521 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,693 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,299 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,819 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,777 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,271 | 5.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,490 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Samer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samer has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Samer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samer, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,463 Americans ever recorded as Samer. The median Samer alive today is 31 years old; half are between 22 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 3,773 people named Samer (102 women and girls, 3,671 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 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 | 194 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 583 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 471 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 155 |
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 Samer born?
The states with the most babies named Samer are California, Illinois and New York, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 153 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 62 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 60 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 32 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Samer 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 18,973 babies since 1880, Samer is the fourth most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 644 babies (2.2%), the fifth 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 Samer
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 Samer and names like it
- Compare Samer and SamirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSamer peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samer since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Samer.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Samer alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.