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Sameer

Masculine · “evening companion”

1968high 2005
#2108 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare69 boys in 2025

Sameer is the companion of an evening's talk in Arabic — the person you stay up conversing with after dark.

How old is the name Sameer?

Sameer first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Sameer alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 3,300 people named Sameer are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Sameer most popular?

Sameer peaked in 2001, reaching #1135 nationally. Today it ranks #2108, 973 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Sameer

Arabic has a word for the talk that happens after nightfall and another for the person you have it with — a distinction English never made. Sameer is standard across Arabic naming; the Sanskrit samir, meaning a breeze, is a separate name that reached the same spelling. Sameer appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

evening companion, conversationalist

From the Arabic samir, from samar, 'evening conversation'. A samir is specifically the person one talks with at night. A separate Sanskrit samir means 'wind' or 'breeze'. Both are genuine and unrelated. The Arabic is documented.

How the name formed

  1. samar
  2. samir
  3. Sameer

Related forms: سمير · Samir · समीर

Pronouncing Sameer

sah-MEER

Two syllables, stress on the second. Samir and Sameer are said identically.

Nicknames for Sameer

Moderate

SamThe front clipping, and a short form with an enormous record
MeerThe back of the name, and a title in its own right in Persian
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1968–20251366801366919682025

US babies named Sameer per year from 1968 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#11351960s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1968
Most boys named
2005136 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1135reached in 2001
Change vs 2024
−2.8%69 in 2025, from 71
Sameer sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2005, with 136 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Sameer in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • سمير in Arabic — transliteration
  • Samir in English — spelling variant
  • समीर in Hindi — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Pennsylvania.

Sameers among us

3,300

people named Sameer are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 24,755 born in 2025 was named Sameer

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Sameer

#2108
Sameer on the 2025 chart
#845
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Sameer went to 69 boys in 2025, but Samer is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 83, which makes it the 845th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,263 places above the chart.

About 1 boy in 20,579 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 24,755 for Sameer itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Pietro test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sameer's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Pietro climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Pietro's path sketches the road Sameer is walking now.

40%chance Sameer will feel dated by 2040
Sameer, aligned on its peakPietro· peak 1974not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+50 yrsPietro · #3302Sameer today
Sameer today is about where Pietro stood in 1998 — 24 years past a #1135-sized peak. By 2013, Pietro had settled around #3265.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Sameer 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

Where Sameer is headed

19682030

US babies named Sameer per year, 1968 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Sameer should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady+6% by 2030projected around #2,152 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Sameer beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Sameer in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Sameerthis name69#2108Ayven69#2108Artist69#2108Khyrie69#2108Darryl69#2108

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That Arabic has a word for a night-talk companion is a first-rate piece of vocabulary.
  • Sam is available as a short form with an enormous record.
  • The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
What to consider
  • Samir is the commoner transliteration.
  • The Sanskrit name of the same spelling means something else.
  • It reads as specifically Arabic or South Asian.

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Frequently asked

How many Sameers are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Sameer are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Sameer?
Sameer is the most-used spelling in US records — 69 of the 83 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Samer.
How popular is the name Sameer in 2025?
Sameer ranks #2108 among US boy names in 2025, with 69 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Sameer?
About 1 in every 24,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Sameer — 69 in all.
Will my child share the name Sameer with classmates?
Sameer will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Sameer

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Ayven#2108 · Artist#2108 · Khyrie#2108 · Darryl#2108 · Armoni#2108 · Aero#2108 · Cai#2108 · Ansh#2108

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