Samiha
Samiha was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,840 among girls’ names; 536 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samiha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samiha?
#16,840 among girls’ names, 2025
Samiha fell from #8,860 in 2015 to #16,840 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 3.1 per million.
31 babies in 2006, the peak
Samiha peaked in 2006, when 31 girls were given it, #4,664 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,840 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,973 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,027 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,444 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,201 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,957 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,244 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,086 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,601 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,329 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,860 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,434 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,081 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,535 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,800 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,583 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,509 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,548 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,862 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,664 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,565 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,164 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,516 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,976 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,135 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,500 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,137 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,091 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,756 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,666 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,031 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,326 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,541 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,055 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,033 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,626 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samiha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samiha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samiha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samiha, and how old are they?
An estimated 530 Americans named Samiha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 905 people named Samiha (902 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 475 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.
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 Samiha born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 119 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Samiha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samiha is most over-represented in New York: since 1983 it was given 3.5 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 Samiha 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 22,868 babies since 1880, Samiha is the eighth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 639 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Samiha
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 Samiha and names like it
- Compare Samiha and SamiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSamiha peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samiha since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Samiha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samiha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.