Samari
Masculine
Samari is given to both — 699 boys and 1,499 girls since 1880. See Samari as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Samari joins a Sa- opening to the -mari ending that has been among the most productive in American naming since the 1990s.
How old is the name Samari?
Samari first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Samari alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 700 people named Samari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Samari most popular?
Samari peaked in 2004, reaching #2283 nationally. Today it ranks #4396, 2,113 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Samari
Ours, offered as ours. The -ari ending has done something unusual: it works for both sexes, which very few endings in American naming manage. Amari, Kamari, Jamari, Zamari and Samari are all given to boys and girls in roughly comparable numbers, where most other productive endings pick a side within a few years. That neutrality is rare and is probably why the family has lasted as long as it has.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language is established. The construction is documented: a Sa- opening and an -ari ending shared with Amari, Jamari and Kamari. Samaria, a biblical region, and Japanese samurai are coincidences of sound rather than sources.
Pronouncing Samari
suh-MAR-ee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Samari
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most boys named
- 200450 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2283reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- −25.8%23 in 2025, from 31
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Samari in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amari in English — related form
- Samaria in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York.
Samaris among us
people named Samari are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 74,264 born in 2025 was named Samari
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Deleon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Samari's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deleon climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deleon's path sketches the road Samari is walking now.
Samari sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Samari beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Samari in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Sam and Ari are both complete short forms with their own records.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- It works for a boy or a girl, which is useful before a birth.
- It is used for both sexes, so forms may guess wrong.
- Samari, Samarie and Samaria are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning, only a construction.
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Frequently asked
- How many Samaris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Samari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Samari in 2025?
- Samari ranks #4396 among US boy names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Samari?
- About 1 in every 74,264 US boys born in 2025 was named Samari — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Samari with classmates?
- Samari will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Samari
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