Samara

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Samara: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #219 in 2006, and it stood at #1,097 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#219highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#643
1997	#803
1998	#801
1999	#900
2000	#969
2001	#898
2002	#861
2003	#818
2004	#590
2005	#596
2006	#615
2007	#693
2008	#790
2009	#771
2010	#946
2011	#894
2012	#812
2013	#813
2014	#814
2015	#794
2016	#782
2017	#915
2018	#826
2019	#778
2020	#1100
2021	#1505
2022	#1142
2023	#832
2024	#1097

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.

In 2023: #832 among girls in England and Wales, #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #643 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 recorded1998–2014
Highest recorded position: #219 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2006 (recorded 1998–2014).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1097 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Samara appears in 3 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 1,123 births with the name.

Samara across 3 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.

Samara'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	#643 (1996)	#590 (2004)	#1097 (2024)	29 of 29	1,123 (1996–2024)	54 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#576 (1997)	#431 (2007)	#856 (2023)	10 of 27	45 (1997–2023)	9 (2007)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#351 (1998)	#219 (2006)	#439 (2014)	8 of 17	31 (1998–2014)	8 (2006)

Samara 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 Samara in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	117	4 of 10	29
2000s	404	10 of 10	40
2010sbusiest	449	10 of 10	45
2020s	153	5 of 10	31

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 45 births a year.

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

Samara 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #219 in Northern Ireland in 2006.

Samara'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	#1097	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#832	43	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1142	29	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1505	20	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1100	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#778	48	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#826	45	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#915	41	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#782	50	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#794	48	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#813	47	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#812	47	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#894	40	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#946	36	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#771	46	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#790	43	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#693	49	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#615	54	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#596	54	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#590	52	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#818	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#861	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#898	25	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#969	22	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#900	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#801	28	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#803	28	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#643	37	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#364	4	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#219	8	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#343	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	7	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	9	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #219, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 54 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 2 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.

Samantha · #3, 60y
Samar · #660, 29y
Samarah · #1774, 23y
Samarth · #1108, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Bryn · #219, 29y
Kayley · #219, 30y
Rhian · #219, 31y
Amari · #218, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Bryn · #219, 29y
Ema · #219, 29y
Kayley · #219, 30y
Rhian · #219, 31y

Samara was ranked #219 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2006. 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.

Samara 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 Samara without appearing here.

Samara moved ahead of

Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1100 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1505 and #2499.
Christine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1142 and #1081 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #832 and #1640.
Alison Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1505 and #1402 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1142 and #1948.
Shannon Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1505 and #1505 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1142 and #1948.

Moved ahead of Samara

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #778 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1100 and #460.
Rita Compare
In 2023 they stood at #832 and #851 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1097 and #625.
Maia Compare
In 1996 they stood at #643 and #753 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #803 and #456.
Violet Compare
In 2004 they stood at #590 and #607 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #596 and #273.

Moved the opposite way to Samara

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samara went from #643 to #1097 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samara went from #643 to #1097 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samara went from #643 to #1097 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samara went from #643 to #1097 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Samara

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samara went from #643 to #1097 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samara went from #643 to #1097 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samara went from #643 to #1097 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samara went from #643 to #1097 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #219 in Northern Ireland in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Samara

Samara at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Samara across 3 official records

Samara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Samara appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Samara

Samara and the names beside it

Samara moved ahead of

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Samara at a glance

Samara across 3 official records

Samara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Samara 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 Samara

Samara and the names beside it

Samara moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Samara

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