Sameer

maleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#297highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#588
1997	#522
1998	#554
1999	#467
2000	#388
2001	#297
2002	#325
2003	#326
2004	#328
2005	#304
2006	#370
2007	#532
2008	#527
2009	#617
2010	#560
2011	#767
2012	#704
2013	#837
2014	#1178
2015	#1046
2016	#1123
2017	#1703
2018	#1786
2019	#1439
2020	#1431
2021	#1984
2022	#2320
2023	#1701
2024	#1951
2025	#1538

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2025.

In 2019: #764 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1439 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #588 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2025
Highest recorded position: #297 among boys in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1538 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Sameer appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,302 births with the name.

Sameer 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.

Sameer'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	#588 (1996)	#297 (2001)	#1538 (2025)	30 of 30	1,302 (1996–2025)	105 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#518 (2005)	#518 (2005)	#764 (2019)	3 of 15	11 (2005–2019)	5 (2009)

Sameer by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Sameer in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	141	4 of 10	35
2000sbusiest	779	10 of 10	78
2010s	302	10 of 10	30
2020s	80	6 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 78 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2000 and 2001, when recorded births rose by 34, from 58 to 92.

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #297 in England and Wales in 2001.

Sameer'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
2025	England and Wales	male	#1538	17	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1984	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1431	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1439	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1123	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1046	27	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1178	22	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#837	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#704	47	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#767	40	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#560	61	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#617	52	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#527	64	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#532	59	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#370	92	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#304	105	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#328	91	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#326	85	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#325	81	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#297	92	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#388	58	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#467	45	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#554	33	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#522	35	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#588	28	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#532	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	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.

Sameer was ranked #297 in England and Wales · Boys in 2001. 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.

Alec#297
Iwan#297
Mackenzie#297
Rio#297
Brooklyn#303
Marley#304
Ajay#305
Cai#305

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #297 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sameer

Sameer at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sameer across 2 official records

Sameer by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Names published alongside Sameer

Sameer at a glance

Sameer across 2 official records

Sameer by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Names published alongside Sameer