Samayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-MY-a
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #5,237 for girls
Samayah is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “time; sacred vow”. In 2025 it ranked 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).
What does Samayah mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Samaya; Sanskrit word; in the US perhaps also heard as Sam + Maya
“time; sacred vow”
In Vajrayana Buddhism, samaya is the sacred commitment between teacher and student.
Meaning borrowed from Samaya.
Is Samayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Samayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Samayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,237among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24about 1 in 67,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 30% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Samayah, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2007, with 45 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had more girls named Samayah than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Samayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 146 girls in the US were given Samayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,293, up from #5,237 for this spelling alone.
Samayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,237 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,336 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,129 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,308 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,643 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,567 |
| 2010 | 22 | #5,975 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,889 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,646 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,600 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,164 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Samayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Zaniyah Hadassah Safa Samiyah Kaliyah Zaliyah Naziyah Sariyah Safiya Jaliyah Aziyah
Other spellings of Samayah
Names related to Samayah
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Arya Lila Arjun Aarav Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Vihaan Aadhya Avyaan Ishaan Siya
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, “Samayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/samayah, updated 20 October 2026.