Samira
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Woman Who Entertains
- Origin
- Arabic
About the Name Samira
Samira is an Arabic name traditionally understood as a woman who entertains with conversation — a companion for the evening, one whose talk is pleasant and lively. It comes from the same root as samar, the agreeable nighttime conversation shared among friends, lending the name a warm, sociable character. Across the Arabic-speaking world it has long been admired for its elegance and its gracious, welcoming sense, qualities that have helped it travel far beyond its origins.
With its soft consonants and balanced three-syllable rhythm, Samira moves easily across languages, equally at home in Arabic, European, and American settings. The recorded variant Samirah simply restores the final h common in Arabic transliteration, offering a slightly more traditional spelling of the same flowing sound — a small choice between two equally graceful forms of one elegant name.
In the United States, Samira first entered the Social Security top-1000 in 2002 and has remained a steady presence since, reaching its best rank to date of #773 in 2024 — its most recent and strongest charted year. It accounted for roughly 3,512 births across that span. That long, durable trajectory, still rising in its latest year, marks Samira as a quietly enduring international favorite rather than a passing trend, and a name whose appeal clearly continues to grow.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Samira
US Popularity History (2002–2025)
Annual US births named Samira by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 387 girls named Samira (girl rank #723 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Samira Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Samira the strongest states are New York, Minnesota, Nevada.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | #479 | 338 |
| 2 | Minnesota | #522 | 105 |
| 3 | Nevada | #568 | 16 |
| 4 | Massachusetts | #653 | 64 |
| 5 | Utah | #661 | 19 |
| 6 | Florida | #703 | 220 |
| 7 | Maryland | #724 | 46 |
| 8 | Illinois | #726 | 90 |
| 9 | Virginia | #735 | 53 |
| 10 | New Jersey | #741 | 77 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington | #924 | 42 |
| 2 | Texas | #866 | 107 |
| 3 | Michigan | #849 | 28 |
| 4 | California | #833 | 233 |
| 5 | Colorado | #818 | 40 |
| 6 | Ohio | #805 | 65 |
| 7 | Louisiana | #790 | 19 |
| 8 | Indiana | #786 | 25 |
| 9 | Arizona | #771 | 44 |
| 10 | North Carolina | #761 | 41 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Samira in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samirah | Woman Who Entertains | Female | Arabic |
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Compare Samira to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Samira against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).