Samira
About 8,875 American babies have been named Samira since 1961, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 723rd. About 8,800 Samiras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Samira
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,875
- Estimated living today
- 8,800
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 723rd
- Rank in 2025
- 723rd
- First recorded
- 1961
How old the living Samiras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,875 babies given the name since 1961, about 8,800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 4,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Persian
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Samiras
- Samira Said (born 1958)Moroccan actress and singer
- Samira Efendi (born 1991)Azerbaijani singer
- Samira Makhmalbaf (born 1980)Iranian film director and screenwriter
- Samira Tawfiq (born 1935)musical artist
- Samira Bellil (1972–2004)French feminist activist and campaigner for the rights of girls and women
- Samira Azzam (1927–1967)Palestinian writer, broadcaster, and translator
- Samira Shahbandar (born 1946)second wife of Saddam Hussein
- Samira Islam (born 1901)Saudi pharmacologist
People named Samira with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Samira is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Samira is most concentrated in Minnesota (2.6×), Florida (2.4×), New York (1.9×), New Jersey (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Samira peaked:
Samira elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Samira | 13,420 | 107th |
| Italy girls | Samira | 2,190 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Samira | 1,848 | 41st |
| England and Wales girls | Samira | 1,580 | 410th |
| Norway girls | Samira | 638 | 223rd |
| Belgium girls | Samira | 523 | 364th |
| Poland girls | Samira | 238 birth registrations | 234th |
| Ireland girls | Samira | 50 | 515th |
| Scotland girls | Samira | 19 | 544th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Samira: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Samira | 1,739 | 0.140% | 35th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Samira | 73 | 0.017% | 240th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Samira | 24 | 0.037% | 84th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Samira | 12 | 0.323% | 5th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Samira is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.20% of children were given it – 74 of them.
Samira: rank by region
In 2024, Samira was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Samira | 839 | 5 |
In 2024, Samira was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Śląskie | Samira | 215 | 3 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Samira appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (238th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Samira by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 95 | 163rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Samira among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Samira | 2,357 | 2,648 |
| Finland girls | Samira | 366 | 485 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Samira lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 9,449 women called Samira were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Samira | 281 | 6.490 | 15 |
| Ceuta | Samira | 107 | 2.583 | 90 |
| Almería | Samira | 384 | 1.018 | 152 |
| Girona | Samira | 318 | 0.768 | 194 |
| Murcia | Samira | 606 | 0.765 | 192 |
| Tarragona | Samira | 309 | 0.707 | 217 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Samira against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.