Samyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAHM-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Samyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “exalted; elevated”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Samyah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Samya, itself a spelling of Samiya, feminine of Sami
“exalted; elevated”
Meaning borrowed from Samya.
Is Samyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Samyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Samyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,883rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 48% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Samyah, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 71 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Samyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Samyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 20 | #5,981 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,311 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,817 |
| 2016 | 27 | #4,989 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,766 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,847 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,313 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,663 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,408 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,297 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,376 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,376 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,555 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,369 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,812 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,799 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,692 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
Names like Samyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Aaliyah, Zainab, Sariyah, Samiyah, Salma, Zaniyah, Safiya, Hadassah, Salem, Saniyah, Farah
Names related to Samyah
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, “Samyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/samyah, updated 20 October 2026.