girls:
118 births since 1982
#5598 (2nd percentile)
boys:
282 births since 1979
#4304 (6th percentile)
overall:
400 births since 1979
#7339 (5th percentile)
The name Saman is the #7,339 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 400 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,304 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 282 births since 1979. For girls, it ranks #5,598 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 118 births since 1982.
Saman first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for boys and 1982 for girls). Birth data for Saman is available in 37 out of the 40 years between 1979 and 2018 (35 years for boys and 16 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 Saman has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2018, 100.0% of babies named Saman were boys.
For boys, Saman reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #744) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
For girls, Saman reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #885) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saman".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Saman. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.6% confident that Saman is pronounced as suh-MUHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAH-muhn, at 15.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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