Semaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- se-MAY-a
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Semaya is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Is Semaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Semaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Semaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Semaya, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had more girls named Semaya than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Semaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Semaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Names like Semaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Safiya Aaliyah Zaniyah Samira Zaya Safia Salma Samiyah Alaya Zahara Kaliyah
Names related to Semaya
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, “Semaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/semaya, updated 20 October 2026.