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Samirah

Feminine · “evening companion”

1977high 2013
#2542 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare69 girls in 2025

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

How old is the name Samirah?

Samirah first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Samirah alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,900 people named Samirah are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Samirah most popular?

Samirah peaked in 2013, reaching #2211 nationally. Today it ranks #2542, 331 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Samirah

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. Samira is standard across Arabic naming, and Samirah is one of several spellings. It appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

evening companion, conversationalist

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

How the name formed

  1. samar
  2. samira
  3. Samirah

Related forms: سميرة · Samira · Samirah

Pronouncing Samirah

sah-MEE-rah

Three syllables, stress in the middle. Samira and Samirah are said identically.

Nicknames for Samirah

Moderate

SamiThe front of the name, and a name in its own right in Arabic
MiraThe back of the name, and a name of its own in several languages
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1977–202584420846919772025

US babies named Samirah per year from 1977 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#22111970s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1977
Most girls named
201384 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2211reached in 2013
Change vs 2024
+23.2%69 in 2025, from 56
Samirah sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2013, with 84 girls. 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.

Samirah in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • سميرة in Arabic — transliteration
  • Samira in English — spelling variant
  • Samirah in Urdu — same name

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

Samirahs among us

1,900

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

About 1 girl in 23,294 born in 2025 was named Samirah

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

Spellings of Samirah

#2542
Samirah on the 2025 chart
#521
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Samirah went to 69 girls in 2025, but Samira, Samyra and Samyrah are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 493, which makes it the 521st most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,021 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 3,260 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 23,294 for Samirah 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 Talena test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Samirah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Talena climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Talena's path sketches the road Samirah is walking now.

40%chance Samirah will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Samirah, aligned on its peakTalena· peak 1976not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+50 yrsTalena · #13477Samirah today
Samirah today is about where Talena stood in 1988 — 12 years past a #2210-sized peak. By 2003, Talena had settled around #7463.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Samirah 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 Samirah is headed

19772030

US babies named Samirah per year, 1977 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

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

Steady-4% by 2030projected around #2,743 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.

Samirah beside its neighbors

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

Samirahthis name69#2542Taelyn69#2542Lennie69#2542Atarah69#2542Alaysha69#2542

US girls 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.
  • Sami and Mira are two short forms, both with real records.
  • Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
What to consider
  • Samira is the commoner transliteration.
  • The Sanskrit name of the same spelling is unrelated.
  • It reads as specifically Arabic.

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Frequently asked

How many Samirahs are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Samirah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Samirah?
Samirah is one of 4 recorded spellings. Samira is the more common one — 387 births in 2025 against 69 for Samirah.
How popular is the name Samirah in 2025?
Samirah ranks #2542 among US girl names in 2025, with 69 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Samirah?
About 1 in every 23,294 US girls born in 2025 was named Samirah — 69 in all.
Will my child share the name Samirah with classmates?
Samirah will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Samirah

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Taelyn#2542 · Lennie#2542 · Atarah#2542 · Alaysha#2542 · Ania#2542 · Lynn#2542 · Eliyana#2542 · Primrose#2542

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