Samanta
Samanta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200598 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1972
- 1,840people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,840 girls have been named Samanta in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 98 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 44%.
By decade
In 2005, its biggest year
Samanta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2005 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Abigail and Olivia. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Samanta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kailipeak 2003
- Kyleapeak 2003
- Emilipeak 2006
- Lizethpeak 2004
- Sayrapeak 2000
- Ashlinpeak 2007
- Shaylinpeak 2003
- Shealynpeak 2000
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.