Samyra
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-MEER-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #4,660 for girls
Samyra is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “companion in evening conversation”. In 2025 it ranked 4,660th for girls in the US (29 babies).
What does Samyra mean?
Arabic: spelling of Samira
“companion in evening conversation”
Samira comes from the Arabic samar, the custom of friendly talk and storytelling in the evening.
Is Samyra a girl's or a boy's name?
Samyra is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 29 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Samyra in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,660th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 29 about 1 in 55,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 29 girls in the US were named Samyra, making it the 4,660th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,451st. Its busiest year was 2007, with 57 girls. It first appears in the records in 1976.
2025 had fewer girls named Samyra than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Samyra in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 500 girls in the US were given Samyra or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #593, up from #4,660 for this spelling alone.
Samyra in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,459 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,112 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,825 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,163 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,451 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,908 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,768 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,996 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,583 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,176 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,313 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,522 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,780 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,744 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,511 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,778 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,047 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,263 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,505 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,261 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,183 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,494 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,817 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,020 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,185 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,794 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,509 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,598 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,045 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,504 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,187 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,315 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,045 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,560 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,154 |
Nicknames for Samyra
Names like Samyra
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Aaliyah, Safiya, Salma, Amira, Zahara, Aliya, Samiyah, Zainab, Safia, Hafsa, Sama
Other spellings of Samyra
Names related to Samyra
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Samyra: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/samyra, updated 20 October 2026.