Samiha

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Samiha: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #630 in 2003, and it stood at #2,115 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#630highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#1015
1998	#1211
1999	#816
2000	#852
2001	#779
2002	#631
2003	#630
2004	#985
2005	#866
2006	#753
2007	#809
2008	#1034
2009	#1004
2010	#1180
2011	#1807
2012	#1893
2013	#1864
2014	#1702
2015	#2328
2016	#2966
2017	#2502
2018	#5666
2019	#2643
2020	#2615
2021	#3961
2022	#2888
2023	#4056
2024	#2115

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.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1031 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: #630 among girls in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2115 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Samiha 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 Samiha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	82	4 of 10	21
2000sbusiest	345	10 of 10	35
2010s	130	10 of 10	13
2020s	40	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 35 births a year.

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

Samiha appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #630 in England and Wales in 2003.

Samiha'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	#2115	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1864	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1807	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1180	27	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1004	32	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1034	29	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#809	40	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#753	41	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#866	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#985	25	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#630	46	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#631	43	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#779	31	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#852	26	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#816	27	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1211	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1015	20	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #630, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 46 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#2,115position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
46births registered in its largest year, 200325 to 49 births →

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.

Sami · #239, 58y
Samia · #571, 29y
Samir · #275, 65y
Samira · #228, 64y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Layth · #630, 24y
Jamaal · #629, 29y
Jaskaran · #629, 29y
Kavan · #629, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Allegra · #630, 29y
Layth · #630, 24y
Abdurahman · #629, 29y
Abid · #629, 29y

Samiha was ranked #630 in England and Wales · Girls in 2003. 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.

Samiha 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 Samiha without appearing here.

Samiha moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2115 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2643 and #5591.
Geraldine Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2643 and #5591.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Samiha

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #1286.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #1785.
Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2888 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #1959.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1702 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2328 and #1240.

Moved the opposite way to Samiha

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samiha went from #1031 to #2115 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samiha went from #1031 to #2115 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samiha went from #1031 to #2115 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samiha went from #1031 to #2115 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Samiha

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samiha went from #1031 to #2115 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samiha went from #1031 to #2115 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samiha went from #1031 to #2115 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Samiha went from #1031 to #2115 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #630 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Samiha

Samiha at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Samiha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Samiha appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Samiha at a glance

Samiha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Samiha 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 Samiha

Samiha and the names beside it

Samiha moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Samiha

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Moved the same way as Samiha