Samya
Samya was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,075 among girls’ names; 2,854 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,830 Americans named Samya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samya?
#5,075 among girls’ names, 2025
Samya fell from #2,994 in 2015 to #5,075 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 16.2 per million.
232 babies in 2007, the peak
Samya peaked in 2007, when 232 girls were given it, #1,121 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,075 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,870 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,918 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,583 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,869 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,829 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,986 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,148 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,240 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,692 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,994 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,991 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 100 | #1,974 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 173 | #1,357 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 176 | #1,328 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,453 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,300 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 215 | #1,187 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 232 | #1,121 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 197 | #1,226 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 181 | #1,254 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 167 | #1,287 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 114 | #1,683 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,544 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,827 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,698 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,782 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,918 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,411 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,270 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,494 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,379 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,261 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,105 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samya, and how old are they?
2,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,854 Americans ever recorded as Samya. The median Samya alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,241 people named Samya (2,221 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,647 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 61 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 654 |
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 Samya born?
The states with the most babies named Samya are Texas, Florida and California, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 171 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 164 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 156 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 133 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 127 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 116 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 116 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 112 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 99 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 87 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Samya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Samya is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1981 it was given 1.3 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 Samya 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 24,064 babies since 1880, Samya is the fifth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 653 babies (4.0%), the sixth 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 Samya
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 Samya and names like it
- Compare Samya and SamiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSamya peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Samya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.