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How popular is the name Samara?
Births per year, rank history and how many Samaras are alive today.
Samara (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 922nd in 2025 with 38 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2005, when 54 babies were given the name, the 596th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2016, with 50 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1505 in 2021 before climbing back to the 922nd place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years.
The Samara you are most likely to meet is around 21 years old. Half of all Samaras born in England and Wales are between 10 and 27, and there are at least 1,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Samara - on average, only one in every 225 such rooms contains a Samara.
How many babies are named Samara each year?
Where does Samara rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Samara most popular?
Samara peaked in 2005, when 54 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Samara?
At least 1,400 people named Samara born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Samara?
Most living Samaras are between 10 and 27; the most common age is about 21.
Is Samara becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.