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Samya

Samya is a girl's name that peaked in 2007, when it was the 1,115th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 4,987th. About 2,800 Samyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Samya

By the numbers

Total US births
2,854
Estimated living today
2,800
Median age today
17
Peak year
2007
Best rank
1,115th
Rank in 2025
4,987th
First recorded
1981

How old the living Samyas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,854 babies given the name since 1981, about 2,800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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 Samya is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Samya is most concentrated in Florida (2.7×), Georgia (2.6×), North Carolina (2.3×), Mississippi (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular girls’ names the year Samya peaked:

All the names of 2007

Samya elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Samya 1,015 650th
Italy girls Samya 150
England and Wales girls Samya 90 2,487th
Belgium girls Samya 54 989th
Poland girls Samya 2 birth registrations 658th

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.

Samya: rank by region

In 2011, Samya was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Samya 521 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.

Where Samya lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 268 women called Samya 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 Samya 7 0.162 672
Ceuta Samya 5 0.121 746
Huesca Samya 8 0.071 898
Tarragona Samya 14 0.032 1,738
Murcia Samya 24 0.030 1,510
Castellón/Castelló Samya 9 0.029 1,762

Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Samya against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.