Samiya
Samiya was given to 84 girls in 2025, #2,212 among girls’ names; 4,096 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,060 Americans named Samiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samiya?
#2,212 among girls’ names, 2025
Samiya fell from #1,325 in 2015 to #2,212 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.10 to 0.05 per 1,000.
264 babies in 2011, the peak
Samiya peaked in 2011, when 264 girls were given it, #973 among girls’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,212 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 95 | #2,051 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 95 | #2,061 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 97 | #2,018 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,323 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 104 | #1,869 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,739 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 138 | #1,576 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 136 | #1,603 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 138 | #1,604 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 180 | #1,325 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 186 | #1,287 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 206 | #1,170 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 248 | #1,025 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 264 | #973 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 202 | #1,204 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 244 | #1,056 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 244 | #1,074 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 233 | #1,114 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 215 | #1,142 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 148 | #1,443 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,559 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,893 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,217 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,184 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,153 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,139 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,474 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,758 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,719 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,419 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,993 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,377 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,927 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,848 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,595 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,124 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,221 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,189 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,913 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samiya, and how old are they?
4,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,096 Americans ever recorded as Samiya. The median Samiya alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,975 people named Samiya (2,967 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,541 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 11 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 117 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,650 |
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 Samiya born?
The states with the most babies named Samiya are New York, Minnesota and Florida, with 73% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #1,143 | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 8 | #651 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,110 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,741 | 1.8× |
| California | 5 | #3,451 | 0.3× |
Where Samiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samiya is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1979 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 Samiya 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 23,134 babies since 1880, Samiya is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 647 babies (13%), the fourth 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 Samiya
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 Samiya and names like it
- Compare Samiya and SamiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSamiya peaked in 2011.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Samiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.