Sameeha
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-MEE-ha
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Sameeha is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “generous, forgiving”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Sameeha mean?
Arabic: spelling of Samiha
“generous, forgiving”
Is Sameeha a girl's or a boy's name?
Sameeha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sameeha in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,276among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 63% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Sameeha, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 40 girls.
Half of all the girls named Sameeha in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 11 girls in the UK were given Sameeha or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,106, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
- Samiha 6
- Sameeha 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Sameeha in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 12 | #2,275 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2016 | 23 | #1,498 |
| 2015 | 32 | #1,160 |
| 2014 | 21 | #1,544 |
| 2013 | 40 | #987 |
| 2012 | 27 | #1,293 |
| 2011 | 36 | #1,039 |
| 2010 | 30 | #1,167 |
| 2009 | 21 | #1,449 |
| 2008 | 31 | #1,064 |
| 2007 | 11 | #2,198 |
| 2006 | 12 | #1,987 |
| 2005 | 15 | #1,608 |
| 2004 | 10 | #2,064 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 5 | #2,912 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 6 | #2,552 |
How popular is Sameeha in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Sameeha in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sameeha in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,707 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,356 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,063 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,431 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,838 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Names like Sameeha
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Aaliyah Safiya Sumayyah Hiba Abeeha Zainab Safaa Rahma Amira Khadija
Other spellings of Sameeha
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Sameeha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sameeha, updated 20 October 2026.