Samyiah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-MEE-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Samyiah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
Where does Samyiah come from?
Arabic: spelling of Samyia; probably a variant of Samiya
Meaning borrowed from Samyia.
Is Samyiah a girl's or a boy's name?
Samyiah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Samyiah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 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, 10 girls in the US were named Samyiah, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Samyiah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Samyiah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,515 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,892 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,913 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,838 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
Names like Samyiah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Samiyah, Zaniyah, Safiya, Sariyah, Hadassah, Zaliyah, Naziyah, Sumayyah, Nusaybah, Zahara
Names related to Samyiah
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, “Samyiah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/samyiah, updated 20 October 2026.