Samiah
Samiah was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,508 among girls’ names; 1,564 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,550 Americans named Samiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samiah?
#6,508 among girls’ names, 2025
Samiah fell from #2,770 in 2015 to #6,508 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.9 to 11.2 per million.
99 babies in 2011, the peak
Samiah peaked in 2011, when 99 girls were given it, #1,999 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,508 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,122 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,354 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,001 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,130 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,064 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,060 | 21.4 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,752 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,086 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,823 | 34.4 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,770 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,677 | 36.9 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,363 | 44.5 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,311 | 46.6 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,999 | 56.3 |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,234 | 48.9 |
| 2009 | 91 | #2,187 | 49.5 |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,134 | 50.2 |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,081 | 51.0 |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,304 | 43.7 |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,306 | 42.2 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,769 | 32.1 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,027 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,510 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,535 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,278 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,383 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,090 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,636 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,960 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,441 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,376 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,002 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,236 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,959 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,881 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,101 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samiah, and how old are they?
1,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,564 Americans ever recorded as Samiah. The median Samiah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,199 people named Samiah (1,194 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 62 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 954 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 534 |
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 Samiah born?
The states with the most babies named Samiah are California, New York and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 111 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 96 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 84 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 32 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 20 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 19 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Samiah 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 20,508 babies since 1880, Samiah is the sixth most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 555 babies (3.2%), the seventh 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 Samiah
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 Samiah and names like it
- Compare Samiah and SamiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSamiah peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Samiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.