Samara Girl
How popular is Samara?
#320 girl name in 2025
957 baby girls were named Samara in the US in 2025, making it the 320th most popular girl name.
Samara popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #320 for girls (▼ 11 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 957 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+112% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #633 in 2015, #351 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (1,270 girls) |
| Highest rank | #256 in 2018 |
| First recorded | 1949 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.7% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Samara counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Samara family of names ranked #321 for girls in 2025 (#310 the year before), with 1,013 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Samara | 957 | 94% |
| Samarah | 56 | 6% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Samara is most popular
Babies named Samara per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Mexico: 1.4 per 1,000 (33 girls)
- Maryland: 1.2 per 1,000 (127 girls)
- Nevada: 1.2 per 1,000 (54 girls)
- New Jersey: 1.1 per 1,000 (192 girls)
- California: 1.0 per 1,000 (853 girls)
Samara by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,243 |
| 1950s | 68 | #3,777 |
| 1960s | 180 | #1,897 |
| 1970s | 898 | #1,063 |
| 1980s | 1,082 | #1,109 |
| 1990s | 1,772 | #937 |
| 2000s | 5,967 | #349 |
| 2010s | 6,853 | #256 |
| 2020s | 5,939 | #259 |
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Questions
- Is Samara a boy or girl name?
- Samara is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Samara were girls.
- How popular is the name Samara?
- 957 baby girls were named Samara in the US in 2025, making it the 320th most popular girl name.
- When was Samara most popular?
- Samara peaked in 2018, when 1,270 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #256 in 2018.
- How many people are named Samara?
- 22,769 babies have been named Samara in the US since 1880. We estimate about 22,528 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 14.
- Where is Samara most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Samara was most common in New Mexico, at 1.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.