Samia

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Samia: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #571 in 2005, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#571highest recorded position
10groupings 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	#974
1997	#658
1998	#758
1999	#1107
2000	#764
2001	#657
2002	#722
2003	#666
2004	#590
2005	#571
2006	#665
2007	#615
2008	#753
2009	#717
2010	#840
2011	#1117
2012	#1150
2013	#1048
2014	#1120
2015	#1783
2016	#1834
2017	#2201
2018	#1586
2019	#2286
2020	#2300
2021	#3192
2022	#2488
2023	#2063
2024	#5891

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 2011: #937 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1117 among girls 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 #974 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: #571 among girls in England and Wales, in 2005 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Samia 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 848 births with the name.

Samia 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.

Samia'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	#974 (1996)	#571 (2005)	#5891 (2024)	29 of 29	848 (1996–2024)	57 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#689 (2005)	#937 (2011)	3 of 7	9 (2005–2011)	3 (2005)

Samia 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 Samia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	106	4 of 10	27
2000sbusiest	458	10 of 10	46
2010s	240	10 of 10	24
2020s	44	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 46 births a year.

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

Samia 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: #571 in England and Wales in 2005.

Samia'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	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2300	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1586	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1834	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1120	31	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1048	34	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1150	29	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1117	30	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#717	51	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#753	46	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#615	57	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#665	47	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#571	57	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#590	52	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#666	43	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#722	36	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#657	39	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#764	30	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#758	30	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#658	37	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#974	21	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	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.

What the record shows

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

Its highest recorded position is #571, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 57 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 9 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.

Samer · #1949, 21y
Sami · #239, 58y
Samiha · #630, 29y
Samir · #275, 65y

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.

Misha · #571, 29y
Tamika · #571, 26y
Soraya · #570, 29y
Elouise · #574, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Fahmida · #571, 25y
Misha · #571, 29y
Roshni · #571, 29y
Sanjay · #571, 25y

Samia was ranked #571 in England and Wales · Girls in 2005. 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.

Samia 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 Samia without appearing here.

Samia moved ahead of

Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #974 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #658 and #1450.
Vicki Compare
In 1996 they stood at #974 and #848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #658 and #1015.
Tyler Compare
In 2008 they stood at #753 and #753 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #717 and #958.
Carol Compare
In 1996 they stood at #974 and #802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #658 and #897.

Moved ahead of Samia

Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #1743.
Jude Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #1894.
Diane Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #2504 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #2411.
Linnea Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #2411.

Moved the opposite way to Samia

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samia went from #974 to #5891 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samia went from #974 to #5891 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samia went from #974 to #5891 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samia went from #974 to #5891 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Samia

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samia went from #974 to #5891 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samia went from #974 to #5891 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samia went from #974 to #5891 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samia went from #974 to #5891 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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: #571 in England and Wales in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Samia

Samia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Samia across 2 official records

Samia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Samia appears in

Popularity data

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Samia at a glance

Samia across 2 official records

Samia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Samia appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Samia

Samia and the names beside it

Samia moved ahead of

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