# Samee (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/samee/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “hearer” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 36 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 36 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 110, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic سَمِيع (samīʕ, “hearer”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | 9,978 |
| 1999 | 6 | 9,676 |
| 2001 | 8 | 8,173 |
| 2002 | 6 | 10,426 |
| 2004 | 6 | 11,108 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,999 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | 1,761 |
| 1998 | 7 | 1,642 |
| 2000 | 11 | 1,241 |
| 2001 | 10 | 1,379 |
| 2002 | 6 | 2,005 |
| 2003 | 7 | 1,962 |
| 2004 | 11 | 1,498 |
| 2005 | 11 | 1,617 |
| 2006 | 9 | 1,892 |
| 2007 | 7 | 2,435 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,158 |
| 2009 | 11 | 1,859 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.