Samina
Feminine · “well-nourished”
Samina's best year in American records is the most recent year in them. That is a rare shape: almost every name on this site peaked in a decade that has already closed, and a name whose highest point is the last data available is a name still going up.
How old is the name Samina?
Samina first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Samina alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 700 people named Samina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Samina most popular?
Samina peaked in 2024, reaching #4772 nationally. Today it ranks #6325, 1,553 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From samin to Samina
The story of Samina
In societies where food was not assured, being well-nourished was a mark of prosperity and care, and a whole class of names across Arabic, Persian and South Asian usage records that: the word that means plump in a dictionary means fortunate in a name. Samina belongs to that group, and it is used far more in Pakistan, Bangladesh and northern India than in the Arab world itself, which is common for Arabic vocabulary names that entered South Asia with Persian as the intermediary. In United States records it appears from the 1970s and rises slowly and steadily rather than in a wave, reaching its best year in 2024, the most recent on file.
Meaningscholars disagree
well-nourished, healthy
Arabic samina is the feminine of samin, from the root s-m-n, which covers fat, richness and being well fed; in classical usage it means plump or fattened, and in Urdu and Persian naming it is understood as healthy, precious or valuable. The shift from the literal to the honorific is genuine and old, but the literal sense is what an Arabic dictionary gives, and families should know both.
How the name formed
- samin
- samina
- Samina
Related forms: Samina · Samina · Samineh · Samina
Pronouncing Samina
sah-MEE-nah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. English speakers often front-stress it as SAM-ih-nuh, which shortens the first vowel and moves the weight.
Nicknames for Samina
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
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 202428 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4772reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −35.7%18 in 2025, from 28
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.
Samina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Samina in Urdu — same name
- Samina in Arabic — same name
- Samineh in Persian — transliteration
- Samina in Bengali — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Saminas among us
people named Samina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was named Samina
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 Anina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Samina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Anina climbed just as high around 1960, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Anina's path sketches the road Samina is walking now.
Samina 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
Samina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Samina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Simple vowels and no consonant clusters, so English speakers manage it immediately.
- Used across Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran and the Arab world.
- Sami, Mina and Sam are three short forms in three different registers.
- The literal Arabic sense is plump, which is a compliment in the naming tradition and not in English.
- Samira, Samiya and Sabina are all close by and get substituted.
- The stress moves to the front in English mouths.
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Frequently asked
- How many Saminas 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 Samina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Samina in 2025?
- Samina ranks #6325 among US girl names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Samina?
- About 1 in every 89,293 US girls born in 2025 was named Samina — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Samina with classmates?
- Samina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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