Samhita
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sam-HEE-ta
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Samhita is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “collection, joined together”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Samhita mean?
Sanskrit: from samhita 'collection'
“collection, joined together”
Sanskrit term for a collection; the Samhita is the oldest layer of text in each of the Vedas.
Is Samhita a girl's or a boy's name?
Samhita 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 Samhita in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Samhita, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2011, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had more girls named Samhita than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Samhita in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Samhita in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,107 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,352 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,180 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,707 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,431 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,523 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,354 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,240 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,386 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,581 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,951 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
Names like Samhita
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Prisha, Avani, Akshara, Saanvi, Srinika, Anvika, Nirvana, Varnika, Ishika, Viha, Sanvi, Navya
Names related to Samhita
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, “Samhita: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/samhita, updated 20 October 2026.