Samariah
Girl · sa-MAIR-ee-a · Hebrew
Samariah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Samariah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Samaria; from the biblical city and region
King Omri named his capital Samaria after Shemer, from whom he bought the hill (1 Kings 16:24).
- Say it
- sa-MAIR-ee-a
Meaning borrowed from Samaria.
Is Samariah a girl's or a boy's name?
Samariah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Samariah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Samariah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2008, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Samariah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 112 girls in the US were given Samariah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,566, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
- Samaria 104
- Samariah 8
Samariah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,396 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,638 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,431 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,523 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,480 |
| 2005 | 20 | #5,994 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
Names like Samariah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Azariah Hadassah Aaliyah Zaniyah Salem Kaliyah Taliyah Zariah Safa Sariyah Azariyah Samiyah
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