Samar

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Samar: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #660, and it stood at #1,951 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
51times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#660highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#2152
1998	#1697
1999	#3900
2000	#1831
2001	#1728
2002	#2540
2003	#1628
2004	#1312
2005	#1796
2006	#3116
2007	#2233
2008	#4524
2009	#2148
2010	#2392
2011	#1608
2012	#2717
2013	#2062
2014	#3514
2015	#2945
2016	#2008
2017	#2502
2018	#1887
2019	#2040
2020	#2615
2021	#3519
2022	#2888
2023	#2504
2024	#2253

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #660 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1610 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 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
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Samar appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 284 births with the name.

Samar 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.

Samar'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 · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#1012 (2014)	#1951 (2024)	21 of 29	270 (1996–2024)	28 (2014)
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#1312 (2004)	#2253 (2024)	29 of 29	284 (1996–2024)	18 (2011)

Samar 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 Samar in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	26	4 of 10	7
2000s	97	10 of 10	10
2010sbusiest	116	10 of 10	12
2020s	45	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 12 births a year.

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

Samar 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #660 in Republic of Ireland in 2023.

Samar'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	#2253	12	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1224	22	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3519	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1329	19	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1723	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1587	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1887	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1455	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1339	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2008	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1431	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1586	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1012	28	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2062	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1147	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1608	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1628	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #660, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2023, 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.

Samanta · #252, 30y
Samantha · #3, 60y
Samara · #219, 29y
Samarah · #1774, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Annabell · #660, 29y
Mateus · #660, 25y
Melita · #660, 27y
Abigael · #661, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Annabell · #660, 29y
Mateus · #660, 25y
Melita · #660, 27y
Abdurrahman · #659, 28y

Samar was ranked #660 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2023. 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.

Samar 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 Samar without appearing here.

Samar moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4524 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1608 and #5785.
Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2945 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2008 and #5785.
Ellinor Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4524 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2148 and #5556.
Kristy Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4524 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2148 and #5556.

Moved ahead of Samar

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2062 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #3514 and #1628.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3519 and #1785.
Mila Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1697 and #2701 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #2189.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2040 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Samar

Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Samar went from #2859 to #1610 while Kelly went from #1454 to #3523.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samar went from #1312 to #2253 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.

Moved the same way as Samar

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Samar went from #2350 to #3519 and Carol from #802 to #3519.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samar went from #3900 to #2253 and Frida from #3900 to #811.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Samar went from #1697 to #2504 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samar went from #3900 to #2253 and Meabh from #3225 to #952.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #660 in Republic of Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Samar

Samar at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Samar across 2 official records

Samar by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Samar appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Samar moved ahead of

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Samar at a glance

Samar across 2 official records

Samar by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Samar 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 Samar

Samar and the names beside it

Samar moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Samar

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