Samantha

girls:

588.6k births since 1880

#47 (99th percentile)

boys:

1.2k births since 1965

#3402 (26th percentile)

overall:

589.8k births since 1880

#102 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Samantha".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
588,597
Peak Births
25,868
Peak Year
1998
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
99.8%
Current Percentile
88.4%
Peak Rank
#3
Current Rank
#111
Female statistics
Total Births
1,205
Peak Births
120
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1965
Peak Percentile
15.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#638
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Samantha

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Samantha. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 89.4% confident that Samantha is pronounced as suh-MAN-thuh. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-MAN-thuh, at 10.6% confidence.

suh-MAN-thuh (3 syllables)
10.6% confidence
S AH0 M AE1 N DH AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Samantha. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Samantha, please vote using the thumbs up button.

sa-MAN-thuh (3 syllables)
1 name 2k births
S AE0 M AE1 N TH AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

sih-MAN-thuh (3 syllables)
3 names 648 births
S IH0 M AE1 N TH AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S AH0 M AE1 N TH AH0) 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.