Samara

What Samara means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Samara yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #320 vs #922 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Samara?

US: Rising: up from #633 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #794 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2018, when 1,270 girls got the name (#256 that year). First in the US records in 1949.

How common

• About 1 in 1,679 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,665 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.71 per 1,000 girls), NV (1.63 per 1,000 girls), MD (1.4 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Samara is #320 in the US and #922 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Samara were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Samira387 US · 34 E&W
• Xamira197 US
• Zamira169 US · 4 E&W
• Zamora130 US
• Samaira92 US · 17 E&W
• Samirah69 US · 6 E&W
• Zamara61 US
• Samarah56 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Samara

Girls

• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*
• Aylani#293Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,595 in 2015, #293 in 2025
• Rory#230“red-haired king”^*
• Amara#98“eternal”^*
• Kailani#253“sea + sky”^*
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025

For a brother

• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Malakai#213Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #491 in 2015, #213 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Samara’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.