Samia
Samia was given to 72 girls in 2025, #2,478 among girls’ names; 3,580 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,510 Americans named Samia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samia?
#2,478 among girls’ names, 2025
Samia fell from #1,765 in 2015 to #2,478 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 66.7 to 44.8 per million.
140 babies in 2006, the peak
Samia peaked in 2006, when 140 girls were given it, #1,559 among girls’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,478 | 44.8 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,654 | 40.7 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,755 | 39.3 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,632 | 40.9 |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,169 | 53.0 |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,134 | 53.2 |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,967 | 59.0 |
| 2018 | 98 | #2,012 | 57.6 |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,766 | 68.9 |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,701 | 71.1 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 119 | #1,765 | 66.7 |
| 2014 | 76 | #2,409 | 42.5 |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,093 | 52.4 |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,333 | 46.0 |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,252 | 47.8 |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,894 | 60.2 |
| 2009 | 104 | #2,001 | 56.6 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,772 | 66.1 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,663 | 69.7 |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,559 | 73.6 |
| 2005 | 133 | #1,545 | 72.0 |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,807 | 57.7 |
| 2003 | 117 | #1,649 | 64.0 |
| 2002 | 88 | #2,000 | 49.0 |
| 2001 | 78 | #2,120 | 43.3 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,268 | 38.0 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,954 | 45.7 |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,099 | 39.6 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,544 | 29.3 |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,010 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 39 | #3,003 | 22.2 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,736 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,399 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,718 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,073 | 19.7 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,205 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,637 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,025 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,901 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,764 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,065 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,844 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,125 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,997 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,907 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,736 | 20.5 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,052 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,479 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,144 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,943 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,663 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,181 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,305 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,478 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,474 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,207 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,373 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,121 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,350 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,157 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,320 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,607 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,463 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,355 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,765 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,058 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,075 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,520 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,313 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samia, and how old are they?
3,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,580 Americans ever recorded as Samia. The median Samia alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 6,085 people named Samia (6,061 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 49 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 238 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 512 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,160 |
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 Samia born?
The states with the most babies named Samia are New York, Florida and Georgia, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #2,032 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,109 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,510 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #977 | 0.6× |
Where Samia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samia is most over-represented in New York: since 1951 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 Samia 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 24,064 babies since 1880, Samia is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 653 babies (11%), 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 Samia
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 Samia and names like it
- Compare Samia and SamiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSamia peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samia since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Samia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.