Samiyyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Arabic
Samiyyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Samiyyah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Samiyah
A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Sami.
Meaning borrowed from Samiyah. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Samiyyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Samiyyah is a girls' name.
How popular is Samiyyah in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.
Half of all the girls named Samiyyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.
Samiyyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,187 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,093 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,208 |
Names like Samiyyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Safiya, Sumayyah, Zainab, Zaniyah, Farah, Zakiyah, Safia, Salma, Fatoumata, Ruqayyah
Names related to Samiyyah
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, “Samiyyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/samiyyah, updated 20 October 2026.