Samara

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Samara is ranked 309th among girls in 2024 (997 births). Its best rank was 256th, in 2018.

Rank in 2024: #309down 50 from 2023
Births in 2024: 9970.06% of girls
Peak year: 20181,270 births
Best rank: #256in 2018
Since 1949: 21,802people given the name

Babies named Samara, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

21,802 girls have been named Samara in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 1,270 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 635 → 309).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 31%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Samara
1940s	5
1950s	68
1960s	180
1970s	898
1980s	1,082
1990s	1,772
2000s	5,967
2010s	6,852
2020s	4,978

In 2018, its biggest year

Samara was the 256th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Samara

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.