Samah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Samah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Samah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #909 in 2003, and it stood at #2,771 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#909highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#1450
1998	#1697
1999	#1473
2000	#1195
2001	#1359
2002	#1066
2003	#909
2004	#1158
2005	#1045
2006	#1748
2007	#1656
2008	#1302
2009	#1596
2010	#1731
2011	#1807
2012	#1525
2013	#1864
2014	#2058
2015	#2705
2016	#2233
2017	#2925
2018	#2340
2019	#3151
2020	#5493
2021	#4634
2022	#3970
2023	#2689
2024	#2771

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #909 among girls in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2771 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Samah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Samah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	40	4 of 10	10
2000sbusiest	188	10 of 10	19
2010s	126	10 of 10	13
2020s	30	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 19 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Samah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #909 in England and Wales in 2003.

Samah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2771	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1864	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1525	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1807	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1731	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1302	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1656	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1045	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1158	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#909	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1066	20	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1195	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1450	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #909, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 27 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#2,771position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
27births registered in its largest year, 200325 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Sama · #337, 28y
Samaa · #1865, 18y
Samaira · #834, 28y
Samanta · #252, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aamna · #909, 29y
Mehak · #909, 27y
Miyah · #909, 28y
Olympia · #910, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aamna · #909, 29y
Mehak · #909, 27y
Miyah · #909, 28y
Avaani · #910, 20y

Samah was ranked #909 in England and Wales · Girls in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Samah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Samah without appearing here.

Samah moved ahead of

Kristine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.
Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #5687.
Kristin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #5687.
Tracey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Samah

Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #1939.
Francis Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2449.
Arlo Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2843.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2705 and #1240.

Moved the opposite way to Samah

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samah went from #1450 to #2771 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samah went from #1450 to #2771 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samah went from #1473 to #2771 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samah went from #1473 to #2771 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.

Moved the same way as Samah

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Samah went from #2350 to #4634 and Carol from #802 to #3519.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Samah went from #1697 to #2689 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Samah went from #2350 to #4634 and Tyler from #230 to #5581.
Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samah went from #1195 to #2771 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #909 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Samah

Samah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Samah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Samah appears in

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Samah at a glance

Samah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Samah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Samah

Samah and the names beside it

Samah moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Samah

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