# Samir (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/samir/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,163 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11,094 / 69 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,541, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 12 | 8,956 |
| 2004 | 5 | 18,280 |
| 2006 | 5 | 19,501 |
| 2007 | 5 | 19,986 |
| 2009 | 6 | 16,902 |
| 2010 | 5 | 19,332 |
| 2011 | 8 | 13,148 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12,949 |
| 2015 | 5 | 18,656 |
| 2019 | 5 | 17,568 |
| 2023 | 5 | 17,190 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 319 | 717 |
| 2012 | 301 | 761 |
| 2013 | 290 | 775 |
| 2014 | 310 | 759 |
| 2015 | 331 | 738 |
| 2016 | 302 | 787 |
| 2017 | 335 | 720 |
| 2018 | 326 | 734 |
| 2019 | 362 | 696 |
| 2020 | 413 | 649 |
| 2021 | 394 | 677 |
| 2022 | 483 | 592 |
| 2023 | 488 | 586 |
| 2024 | 486 | 589 |
| 2025 | 434 | 643 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 65 | 537 |
| 2012 | 59 | 592 |
| 2013 | 39 | 788 |
| 2014 | 62 | 574 |
| 2015 | 51 | 671 |
| 2016 | 41 | 790 |
| 2017 | 28 | 1,042 |
| 2018 | 43 | 763 |
| 2019 | 37 | 825 |
| 2020 | 32 | 898 |
| 2021 | 33 | 907 |
| 2022 | 35 | 878 |
| 2023 | 31 | 965 |
| 2024 | 35 | 898 |
| 2025 | 36 | 873 |

## People named Samir

- Samir Nasri, French footballer (born 1987)
- Samir Amin, Egyptian-French economist and political theorist (1931-2018)
- Samir Ujkani, Albanian-Kosovan footballer
- Samir Javadzadeh, Azerbaijani singer
- Samir Lima de Araújo, Brazilian association football player
- Samir, Brazilian association football player
- Samir Barać, Croatian water polo player
- Samir Chergui, Algerian football player
- Samir Mammadov, Azerbaijani boxer
- Samir Alakbarov, footballer (born 1968)
- Samir Guesmi, French actor
- Samir Beloufa, French and Algerian footballer

## 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.