Samyrah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-MEER-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Samyrah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “companion in evening conversation”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Samyrah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Samyra, itself a spelling of Samira
“companion in evening conversation”
Samira comes from the Arabic samar, the custom of friendly talk and storytelling in the evening.
Meaning borrowed from Samyra.
Is Samyrah a girl's or a boy's name?
Samyrah 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 Samyrah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Samyrah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Samyrah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 500 girls in the US were given Samyrah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #593, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Samyrah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,541 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,390 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,838 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
Nicknames for Samyrah
Names like Samyrah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Hadassah Safa Samiyah Zaniyah Nusaybah Safiya Sariyah Zaliyah Naziyah Sumayyah Zainab
Other spellings of Samyrah
Names related to Samyrah
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, “Samyrah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/samyrah, updated 20 October 2026.