Samira
Samira was given to 387 girls in 2025, #723 among girls’ names; 8,875 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,760 Americans named Samira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Samira mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Samira is “a female given name from Persian mainly used by Persians.”
From Persian سمیرا.
/sæˈmiːrə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Samira?
#723 among girls’ names, 2025
Samira rose from #1,125 in 2015 to #723 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.13 to 0.24 per 1,000.
387 babies in 2025, the peak
Samira peaked in 2025, when 387 girls were given it, #723 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 364 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 387 | #723 | 0.24 |
| 2024 | 364 | #774 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 350 | #802 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 365 | #781 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 287 | #927 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 279 | #928 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 261 | #992 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 295 | #913 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 262 | #993 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 239 | #1,087 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 227 | #1,125 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 208 | #1,182 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,055 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,105 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 214 | #1,148 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 237 | #1,050 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 239 | #1,072 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 245 | #1,069 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 243 | #1,082 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 236 | #1,078 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 252 | #975 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 238 | #995 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 313 | #792 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 247 | #908 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 165 | #1,228 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 175 | #1,154 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 134 | #1,332 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 160 | #1,173 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 116 | #1,437 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 129 | #1,325 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 126 | #1,318 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 102 | #1,527 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 109 | #1,465 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,468 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 104 | #1,499 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 103 | #1,506 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,677 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,765 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,912 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,970 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,970 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,181 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,986 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,895 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,931 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,041 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,571 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,297 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,892 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,711 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,941 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,662 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,615 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,479 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,083 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,436 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,374 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,900 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,907 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,764 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,608 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,356 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samira, and how old are they?
8,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,875 Americans ever recorded as Samira. The median Samira alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 11,693 people named Samira (11,654 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,832 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 318 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,740 |
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 Samira born?
The states with the most babies named Samira are California, New York and Texas, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 53 | #605 | 1.0× |
| New York | 42 | #420 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 36 | #837 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 35 | #529 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 14 | #704 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #725 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #416 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #862 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 11 | #733 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 10 | #536 | 1.9× |
Where Samira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samira is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1961 it was given 1.9 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 Samira 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 45,148 babies since 1880, Samira is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 387 of their 1,768 babies (22%), again the second 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 Samira
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 Samira and names like it
- Compare Samira and SamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSamira peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samira since 1910.
- Persian namesWiktionary’s origin for Samira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Samira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Samira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.