Samirah
Samirah was given to 69 girls in 2025, #2,562 among girls’ names; 1,958 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Samirah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samirah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samirah?
#2,562 among girls’ names, 2025
Samirah rose from #3,084 in 2015 to #2,562 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.8 to 42.9 per million.
84 babies in 2013, the peak
Samirah peaked in 2013, when 84 girls were given it, #2,232 among girls’ names. The 69 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,562 | 42.9 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,972 | 34.6 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,319 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,386 | 47.6 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,704 | 39.0 |
| 2020 | 54 | #3,007 | 33.4 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,846 | 35.2 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,773 | 36.4 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,831 | 34.8 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,271 | 28.2 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,084 | 30.8 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,678 | 36.9 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,232 | 47.9 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,312 | 46.6 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,688 | 37.5 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,401 | 44.4 |
| 2009 | 75 | #2,526 | 40.8 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,531 | 39.7 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,386 | 41.6 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,344 | 42.6 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,399 | 40.0 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,836 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,116 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,380 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,687 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,158 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,695 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,116 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,783 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,475 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,807 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,992 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,882 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,810 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,136 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,773 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,485 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,011 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,220 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,010 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,032 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,810 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,136 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,820 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,102 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,745 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,874 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,456 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,899 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samirah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samirah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samirah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samirah, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,958 Americans ever recorded as Samirah. The median Samirah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,369 people named Samirah (1,362 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 23 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 224 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 889 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 801 |
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 Samirah born?
The states with the most babies named Samirah are Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 12 | #1,228 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #925 | 1.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,585 | 2.4× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,715 | 0.3× |
Where Samirah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samirah is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1977 it was given 2.4 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 Samirah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Samirah?
Samirah is a less common spelling of Samira: SSA has recorded 1,958 Samirah and 8,875 Samira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,646 babies since 1880, Samirah is the fourth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 1,640 babies (4.2%), again the fourth 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 Samirah
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 Samirah and names like it
- Compare Samirah and SamiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSamirah peaked in 2013.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samirah since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Samirah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samirah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.