Samera
Feminine · “companion in evening conversation”
Arabic has a word for talking with someone after dark. Samar is night-time conversation — the kind that goes on because nobody wants to go to bed — and a samira is the woman you have it with. The name is that: a companion for the evening.
How old is the name Samera?
Samera first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Samera alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 600 people named Samera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Samera most popular?
Samera peaked in 2004, reaching #4492 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 7,440 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
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Where it comes from
From samar to Samera
The story of Samera
The vocabulary is precise in a way English is not. Samar is the conversation, musamara is the act of having it, and a samir or samira is the person you have it with; classical Arabic poetry uses the words constantly, because before artificial light the hours after dark were when people talked. That is the whole of the name and it is unusually specific for a personal name in any language. There is a separate word that looks like it and is unrelated: Samaria, the city and the region, is named in the book of Kings after a man called Shemer who owned the hill and sold it, which is a much duller derivation and a completely different root.
Meaning
companion in evening conversation
Arabic samira, the feminine of samir, from samar, conversation by night. The root carries a sense of talking in the dark, and the name names a role rather than a quality. Samera is one of several American transliterations of it.
How the name formed
- samar
- Samira
- Samera
Related forms: Samira · Semira · Samira
Pronouncing Samera
sah-MEE-rah
Three syllables, stress in the middle, with a long second vowel that the e in this spelling does not show. suh-MERR-uh, following the letters, is the commoner American reading.
Nicknames for Samera
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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 200430 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4492reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- −22.2%7 in 2025, from 9
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.
Samera in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Samira in Arabic — same name
- Semira in Turkish — same name
- Samira in Urdu — transliteration
Sameras among us
people named Samera are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Samera
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Samera
- #11932
- Samera on the 2025 chart
- #930
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Samera went to 7 girls in 2025, but Sameera 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 — 11,002 places above the chart.
- Sameera23
- Samera7
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Samera 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 Anesia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Samera's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Anesia climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Anesia's path sketches the road Samera is walking now.
Samera 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
Samera beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Samera in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Arabic meaning that is unusually specific and easy to remember.
- Three short forms, one of which serves either child.
- Three open syllables with a clear central stress.
- Samira is the standard international spelling and has a different middle vowel.
- It is close enough to Samara, Samantha and Sabrina to be misheard as any of them.
- The e in this spelling shortens a vowel the Arabic holds long.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sameras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Samera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Samera?
- Samera is one of 2 recorded spellings. Sameera is the more common one — 23 births in 2025 against 7 for Samera.
- How popular is the name Samera in 2025?
- Samera ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Samera?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Samera — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Samera with classmates?
- Samera will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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