Samyra
Samyra was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,736 among girls’ names; 1,128 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Samyra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samyra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samyra?
#4,736 among girls’ names, 2025
Samyra fell from #4,697 in 2015 to #4,736 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 18.0 per million.
57 babies in 2007, the peak
Samyra peaked in 2007, when 57 girls were given it, #3,088 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,736 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,503 | 27.8 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,173 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,880 | 23.8 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,224 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,525 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,011 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,753 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,832 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,071 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,697 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,249 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,360 | 27.4 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,572 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,827 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,803 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,556 | 25.0 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,844 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,088 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,303 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,570 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,314 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,220 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,595 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,020 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,443 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,423 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,011 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,605 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,006 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,962 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,019 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,558 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,928 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,761 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,117 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,593 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,447 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,805 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,062 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,769 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,749 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,457 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,973 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Samyra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samyra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samyra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samyra, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,128 Americans ever recorded as Samyra. The median Samyra alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 799 people named Samyra (798 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 915 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 97 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 549 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 455 |
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).
How common is the spelling Samyra?
Samyra is a less common spelling of Samira: SSA has recorded 1,128 Samyra and 8,875 Samira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,148 babies since 1880, Samyra is the eighth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 1,768 babies (1.6%), 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 Samyra
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 Samyra and names like it
- Compare Samyra and SamiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSamyra peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samyra since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Samyra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samyra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.