girls:
1.5k births since 1981
#4225 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1981
#6225 (20th percentile)
The name Samiah is the #6,225 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,520 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 19.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,225 (26.1% percentile) for all time with 1,520 births since 1981.
Samiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (first recorded for girls in 1981). Birth data for Samiah is available in 35 out of the 43 years between 1981 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Samiah reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 10.0% percentile (ranked #846) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 51 births per million (ranked 10.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Samiah ranks #928 for girls (2.0% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 26.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Samiah".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Samiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.0% confident that Samiah is pronounced as SAH-mee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-MAI-uh, at 24.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S AA1 M IY0 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.
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