Samaiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sah-MY-ah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Samaiya is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Samaiya mean?
Arabic: probably a variant of Sumayya
Sumayya bint Khayyat is honoured in Islam as the first martyr of the faith.
Is Samaiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Samaiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Samaiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 41% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Samaiya, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Samaiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Samaiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,003 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,599 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,680 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,096 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,267 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,982 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,795 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,087 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,438 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,020 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Nicknames for Samaiya
- Sam 161 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Samaiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Aaliyah, Safiya, Samira, Samiyah, Zahara, Salma, Safia, Zaniyah, Zainab, Sariyah, Aliya
Names related to Samaiya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Samaiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/samaiya, updated 20 October 2026.