Samiyyah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Samiyyah

The Social Security Administration has registered 148 babies named Samiyyah between 1979 and 2013, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Samiyyah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 11 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Samiyyah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 76 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Samiyyah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Samiyyah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Samiyyah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 148 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.