Girls' name · since 1986
Simara
Since 1986, U.S. Social Security records show 156 babies named Simara, peaking in 2005. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #22,385 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,515 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 156
- born since 1986
- 2000s
- peak decade
Simara currently ranks #15515 among girls' names in America, with 156 babies recorded since 1986.
Simara has 156 recorded births among girls since 1986, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15515 as of the latest data, more common than 10% of girls, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1986 to 2025.
- #22,385 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,515 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 156 born since 1986
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Simara ranks #22,385 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,515 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 156 born since 1986, peaking in the 2000s.
- #22,385 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,515 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 156
- born since 1986
- 2000s
- peak decade
Simara's 156 recorded births place it above 69.04% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Simara compares
156 32nd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Simara's all-time total is 59% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Simara | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 156 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 15 | 21 | 19,840 |
Simara's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Simara's full recorded timeline at 2010, 46% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 54% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1986, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2005 peak of 15 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Simara popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1986–2025
- Peak year (2005)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 40 years of records
Simara by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (74 births, 47% of the file).
2000s was Simara's strongest decade.
74 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 47% of all-time use.
Simara births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 10
1980s
10 births
- 2000s
2000s
74 births
- 2010s
2010s
52 births
- 2020s 20
2020s
20 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 74 births (47% of all-time use).
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- Simara's decade-level peak was the 2000s (74 total births); usage has since declined to 20 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Simara: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2005)
Similar record span (~39 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1986–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Simara draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.