Sama

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Sama: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #337, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#337highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2738
1998	#3142
2000	#2416
2001	#2783
2002	#2868
2003	#2191
2004	#2802
2005	#1796
2006	#1748
2007	#1234
2008	#1302
2009	#1248
2010	#1332
2011	#1269
2012	#1387
2013	#1177
2014	#940
2015	#1240
2016	#1241
2017	#1457
2018	#1272
2019	#1095
2020	#969
2021	#860
2022	#839
2023	#865
2024	#751

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #751 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2738 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Sama appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 613 births with the name.

Sama across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sama's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2738 (1997)	#751 (2024)	#751 (2024)	27 of 28	613 (1997–2024)	50 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#750 (2016)	#718 (2025)	#718 (2025)	3 of 10	12 (2016–2025)	4 (2016)

Sama 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 Sama in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	9	2 of 10	5
2000s	123	10 of 10	12
2010s	272	10 of 10	27
2020sbusiest	209	5 of 10	42

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 42 births a year.

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

Sama appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #337 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Sama'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	#751	50	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#865	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#839	42	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#860	41	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#969	35	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1095	31	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1457	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1241	27	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1240	27	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#940	39	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1177	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1387	23	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1269	25	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1332	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1248	24	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1302	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1234	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #337, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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.

Salwa · #655, 29y
Sam · #38, 59y
Samaa · #1865, 18y
Samah · #909, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, 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.

Elaina · #337, 33y
Kiana · #337, 29y
Alaina · #336, 30y
Reid · #339, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abd · #337, 28y
Cullen · #337, 30y
Jules · #337, 30y
Kiana · #337, 29y

Sama was ranked #337 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Sama 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 Sama without appearing here.

Sama moved ahead of

Meabh Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2868 and #2868 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #2191 and #4373.
Ollie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2802 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1796 and #3970.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1796 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1748 and #3548.
Kristine Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2802 and #2278 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1748 and #3548.

Moved ahead of Sama

Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2783 and #1107.
Mila Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2738 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3142 and #2701.
Harper Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1302 and #1391 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1248 and #1171.
Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1272 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1095 and #1063.

Moved the opposite way to Sama

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sama went from #2738 to #751 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sama went from #2738 to #751 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sama went from #2738 to #751 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sama went from #2738 to #751 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Sama

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sama went from #2738 to #751 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sama went from #2738 to #751 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sama went from #2738 to #751 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sama went from #2738 to #751 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #337 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Popularity journey

Sama across 2 official records

Sama by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Sama across 2 official records

Sama by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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