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How popular is the name Samira?
Births per year, rank history and how many Samiras are alive today.
Samira (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 997th in 2025 with 34 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2004, when 89 babies were given the name, the 410th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1230 in 2024 before climbing back to the 997th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Samira is one spelling of a name also recorded as Sameera and Samirah; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Samira you are most likely to meet is around 21 years old. Half of all Samiras born in England and Wales are between 14 and 27, and there are at least 2,700 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 Samira - on average, only one in every 117 such rooms contains a Samira.
How many babies are named Samira each year?
Includes all spellings: Samira, Sameera, Samirah. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Samira spelling rank?
Where does the Sameera spelling rank?
Where does the Samirah spelling rank?
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 Samira most popular?
Samira peaked in 2004, when 126 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Samira?
At least 2,700 people named Samira in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Samira?
Most living Samiras are between 14 and 27; the most common age is about 21.
Is Samira becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.