Sameera
Feminine · “Companion in evening conversation”
Samīra names a very specific thing: the samar is talk in the evening, the conversation that goes on after dark, and a samīra is the woman who keeps that conversation going. Few languages have a word for it and fewer have made it a name.
How old is the name Sameera?
Sameera first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Sameera alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 800 people named Sameera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sameera most popular?
Sameera peaked in 2016, reaching #3923 nationally. Today it ranks #5410, 1,487 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
Where it comes from
From samīra to Sameera
The story of Sameera
The word belongs to a desert culture where the heat made daytime talk difficult and the evening was when a community gathered, and Arabic keeps a specific vocabulary for it. The name is used across the Arab world, Iran, Turkey and South Asia; it is very common in Pakistan and India, where the doubled-e spelling is standard. American records show it from the 1970s with Arab and South Asian immigration, rising slowly, with a peak as recent as 2016 — the profile of a name still arriving rather than one that has crested and fallen.
Meaning
Companion in evening conversation
From Arabic samar, conversation by night, and the related verb samara, to talk in the evening. Samīr and Samīra are the masculine and feminine of one who does so. The reading is settled. The doubled e of Sameera is a South Asian transliteration convention marking the long ī; Samira, Sameera and Samirah are the same name.
How the name formed
- samīra
- Samira
- Sameera
Related forms: سميرة · سمیرا · Samira · Semira · Samira
Pronouncing Sameera
sah-MEE-rah
Three syllables, stress in the middle, with a long ee. The doubled e is a transliteration device for that length, not a separate syllable.
Nicknames for Sameera
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
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 201638 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3923reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- +35.3%23 in 2025, from 17
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.
Sameera in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- سميرة in Arabic — transliteration
- سمیرا in Urdu — same name
- Samira in Persian — spelling variant
- Semira in Turkish — spelling variant
- Samira in Bosnian — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Sameeras among us
people named Sameera are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was named Sameera
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Sameera
- #5410
- Sameera on the 2025 chart
- #930
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Sameera went to 23 girls in 2025, but Samera is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 30, which makes it the 930th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,480 places above the chart.
- Sameera23
- Samera7
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 69,881 for Sameera 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Chessa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sameera's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Chessa climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Chessa's path sketches the road Sameera is walking now.
Sameera 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
Sameera beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sameera in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and unusually specific and charming.
- Sam and Mira are both ready-made short forms.
- It is recognized from Morocco to Bangladesh.
- Samira, Sameera and Samirah are three spellings of one name.
- The doubled e will be read as two syllables by English speakers.
- It reads as Arab or South Asian, which some families weigh.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sameeras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Sameera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Sameera?
- Sameera is the most-used spelling in US records — 23 of the 30 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Samera.
- How popular is the name Sameera in 2025?
- Sameera ranks #5410 among US girl names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sameera?
- About 1 in every 69,881 US girls born in 2025 was named Sameera — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sameera with classmates?
- Sameera will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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