Xamira
Feminine
Xamira is a young name in the American record — young enough that nearly everyone carrying it is still a child. It sits among the X- openings that Spanish-speaking America has kept in circulation, Ximena and Xiomara and Xóchitl among them, and it shares its music with the much older Samira, an Arabic name in use for centuries.
How old is the name Xamira?
Xamira first appears in US birth records in 2016 — 9 years ago. Xamira is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Xamiras are still in diapers. About 300 people named Xamira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Xamira most popular?
Xamira peaked in 2025, reaching #1173 nationally. Today it ranks #1173, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Xamira
Nobody has written Xamira's history, because it has barely had one — it appears in the national record only within the last decade, and the trail stops there. What is there is the shape: three beats with the weight in the middle, the soft -mira ending it shares with Samira, Amira, Elvira and Mira, and an opening X that in American naming has become a signature of the Spanish-speaking parts of the country. Read it, then, as a name built the way a great many names have been built — a sound already loved, given a new first letter, and set down among children who are still small enough to be carried.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No meaning has been established for this spelling. What is documented is the name it echoes: Arabic Samira, from samar, the evening conversation — a companion in nighttime talk. Whether Xamira was formed from that name or arrived some other way is not recorded, so the meaning stays open.
Pronouncing Xamira
suh-MEE-ruh
The stress falls on the middle syllable. The X is the open question: most American speakers say it as S, some as Z, and readers coming from Spanish naming habits may reach for the H sound they use in Ximena. Whichever you choose, expect to say it first and let others follow.
Nicknames for Xamira
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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
- 2016
- Most girls named
- 2025197 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1173reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +337.8%197 in 2025, from 45
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.
Xamira in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Samira in Arabic — related form
- Sameera in Arabic (English transliteration) — transliteration
- Zamira in Albanian, Uzbek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, California.
Xamiras among us
people named Xamira are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 8,159 born in 2025 was named Xamira
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 Candie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Xamira's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Candie climbed just as high around 1984, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Candie's path sketches the road Xamira is walking now.
Xamira is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Xamira is headed
Xamira is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 157% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Xamira beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Xamira in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Carries a ready-made short form in Mira, which works on its own and needs no explanation.
- Sounds like Samira and Amira, names widely known across Arabic-speaking communities and beyond, so the rhythm is already familiar to many ears.
- Three syllables ending in -a, a pattern that pairs easily with both short and long surnames.
- The X opening puts it in company with Ximena, Xiomara and Xóchitl — an initial with real standing in American naming.
- The spelling will need saying aloud and then spelling out, most times it is given. That is a small tax paid many times over a lifetime, not a serious problem, but it is real.
- There is no settled pronunciation for the X, so the same child may be greeted three different ways in one day until the family's version takes hold.
- Expect to correct Samira, Zamira and occasionally Xiomara for years — the near-neighbors are all more established.
- Because the name is so new, there are almost no adult bearers to point to. Whoever carries it will be defining how it reads for the people around them.
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Frequently asked
- How many Xamiras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 300 people named Xamira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Xamira in 2025?
- Xamira ranks #1173 among US girl names in 2025, with 197 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Xamira?
- About 1 in every 8,159 US girls born in 2025 was named Xamira — 197 in all.
- Will my child share the name Xamira with classmates?
- Xamira will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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