Samara

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Самара in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Samara is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name177K records spelled Samara17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Australia, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Šamara, Sämärä, Sämãrâ, Šãmärã, Śamara

• Hindi given name8.5K records spelled Samara8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Marathi

  Also written Sāmara, Samarā, Sámárã, Sâmara

• Catalan given name5.7K records spelled Samara2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain

  Also written Samarà

• a separate given name3.2K records spelled Samara5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Samará, Sâmara, Samára, Samarà

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Samara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, Samara (an oblast of Russia)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• name of many men (P)

  as a name·Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

• Seme dell’olmo

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• In Russian, probably derived from the city of the same name.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Italian, samara (winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 77 years between 1949–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Samara de Córdovab. 1923GTGuatemalan actor (1932-2015)
• Samara Felippob. 1978BRBrazilian actress
• Samara Sheppardb. 1990NZmountain biker
• Samara Karimovab. 1991KGKyrgyz singer
• Samara Vieirab. 1991BRBrazilian handball player
• Samara Velteb. 1991ESBasque writer, researcher
• Samara Weavingb. 1992AUAustralian actress and model (born 1992)
• Samara Almeidab. 1992BRBrazilian volleyball player
• Samara Joyb. 1999USAmerican jazz singer
• Samara Leeb. 2008KRKorean-American actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 803 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Samara?

We estimate roughly 138 thousand people bear Samara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Samara have the most bearers?

Samara is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled самара.

How common is Samara compared with other names?

In Brazil, Samara is the 310th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Samara a male or female name?

Samara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Samara mean?

Recorded meaning: The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.