girls:
18 births since 2007
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
344 births since 1993
#4242 (7th percentile)
overall:
362 births since 1993
#7377 (5th percentile)
The name Samaj is the #7,377 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 362 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 4.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,242 (7.4% percentile) for all time with 344 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 2007.
Samaj first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 2007 for girls). Birth data for Samaj is available in 25 out of the 31 years between 1993 and 2023 (25 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Samaj has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Samaj reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #878) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Samaj ranks #894 for boys (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 90.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Samaj reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #935) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Samaj".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Samaj. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.5% confident that Samaj is pronounced as suh-MAHJ, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-MUHJ, at 35.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S AH0 M AA1 JH) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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