girls:
69 births since 2003
#5647 (1st percentile)
boys:
10.2k births since 1957
#1156 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.2k births since 1957
#2637 (66th percentile)
The name Samir is the #2,637 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,242 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 65.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,156 (74.8% percentile) for all time with 10,173 births since 1957. For girls, it ranks #5,647 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 2003.
Samir first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (1957 for boys and 2003 for girls). Birth data for Samir is available in 65 out of the 67 years between 1957 and 2023 (65 years for boys and 11 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 Samir has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Samir reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 45.3% percentile (ranked #506) with 258 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 266 births per million (ranked 45.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1983, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Samir is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #501 (45.1% percentile) with 266 births per million.
For girls, Samir reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #900) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Samir ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 47.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Samir".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Samir. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.9% confident that Samir is pronounced as suh-MIHR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-MEAR, at 30.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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