girls:
776 births since 1998
#4940 (14th percentile)
overall:
776 births since 1998
#6963 (10th percentile)
The name Samyah is the #6,963 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 776 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 10.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,940 (13.5% percentile) for all time with 776 births since 1998.
Samyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (first recorded for girls in 1998).
For girls, Samyah reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 6.8% percentile (ranked #900) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 34 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Samyah ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 15.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Samyah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Samyah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 5 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Samya" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Samya..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Samyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.1% confident that Samyah is pronounced as SA-myuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-MAI-uh, at 12.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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