Samora
Samora was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,565 among girls’ names; 636 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samora?
#3,565 among girls’ names, 2025
Samora rose from #4,961 in 2015 to #3,565 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.7 to 26.8 per million.
43 babies in 2025, the peak
Samora peaked in 2025, when 43 girls were given it, #3,565 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 31 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,565 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,546 | 19.1 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,971 | 23.7 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,694 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,660 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,631 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,947 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,754 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,247 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,107 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,961 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,413 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,287 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,400 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,721 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,383 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,267 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,450 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,203 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,870 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,962 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,165 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,568 | 6.0 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,082 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,130 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,269 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,251 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,279 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,058 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,043 | 4.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,061 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,748 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,900 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samora has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 34 years of records.
Girls and boys named Samora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samora, and how old are they?
An estimated 630 Americans named Samora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 506 people named Samora (410 women and girls, 96 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 420 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 44,656 babies since 1880, Samora is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 1,782 babies (2.4%), again the eighth 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 Samora
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 Samora and names like it
- Compare Samora and SamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSamora peaked in 2025.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samora since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Samora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Samora alive today were born 2013-2025.
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