Samiyah
Samiyah was given to 126 girls in 2025, #1,650 among girls’ names; 5,255 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,210 Americans named Samiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Samiyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Samiyah is “a female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Sami.”
Derived from Arabic سَامِيَة (sāmiya).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Samiyah?
#1,650 among girls’ names, 2025
Samiyah fell from #1,048 in 2015 to #1,650 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.14 to 0.08 per 1,000.
343 babies in 2011, the peak
Samiyah peaked in 2011, when 343 girls were given it, #789 among girls’ names. The 126 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,650 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 154 | #1,439 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 123 | #1,689 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,496 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 163 | #1,362 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 173 | #1,290 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 185 | #1,258 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 190 | #1,232 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 219 | #1,135 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 257 | #1,033 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 252 | #1,048 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 269 | #991 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 292 | #884 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 328 | #820 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 343 | #789 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 245 | #1,024 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 266 | #995 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 233 | #1,111 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 252 | #1,044 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 209 | #1,166 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 153 | #1,403 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,665 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 114 | #1,682 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 86 | #2,023 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,428 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,055 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,889 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,211 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,022 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,705 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,551 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,241 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,960 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,940 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,960 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,493 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,066 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,882 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samiyah, and how old are they?
5,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,255 Americans ever recorded as Samiyah. The median Samiyah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 3,220 people named Samiyah (3,214 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,381 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,530 |
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 Samiyah born?
The states with the most babies named Samiyah are New York, Florida and Texas, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 11 | #1,299 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,415 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,179 | 0.5× |
| California | 9 | #2,249 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,125 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,193 | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 6 | #760 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,586 | 2.3× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,324 | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,664 | 0.9× |
Where Samiyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samiyah is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1982 it was given 2.3 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 Samiyah 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 21,853 babies since 1880, Samiyah is the most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 126 of their 479 babies (26%), again the 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 Samiyah
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 Samiyah and names like it
- Compare Samiyah and SamiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSamiyah peaked in 2011.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samiyah since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Samiyah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Samiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.