Sameera
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sameera is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia. In Azerbaijan it is the 60th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A male given name from Sanskrit, sometimes shortened to Sameer.
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 636◐
- MAMorocco1 in 1.1K
- TJTajikistan1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈97K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 218 ●
- 1 in 2.2K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
261K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Samira in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 18 more, Самира in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more, Სამირა in GE Georgia and Саміра in UA Ukraine.
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●
A male given name from Sanskrit, sometimes shortened to Sameer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #367 | 77,589 | 32K rec. | — | #115 | Самира | 126 |
| AR Argentina | #652 | 74,261 | 33K rec. | — | 379 | Samira | 54 |
| IN India | — | 50,094 | 30K rec. | — | 12 | Sameera | 104 |
| BR Brazil | #729 | 46,330△ | 11K rec. | 1 in 4.6K | 46K | Samira | 134 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 17,823 | 14K rec. | — | — | Samira | 28 |
| SY Syria | #198 | 17,577 | 18K rec. | — | — | Samira | 22 |
| MA Morocco | #109 | 13,576 | 14K rec. | — | — | Samira | 80 |
| FR France | — | 13,325△ | 113 rec. | 1 in 5.1K | 13K | Sameera | 48 |
| US United States | — | 11,654 | 27K rec. | 1 in 29K | 12K | Samira | 218 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #334 | 10,532 | 299 rec. | — | — | Самира | 15 |
| ES Spain | #685 | 9,449 | 11K rec. | 1 in 5.3K | 9.4K | Samira | 81 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #506 | 8,610 | 9.6K rec. | 1 in 2.2K | 8.6K | Самира | 32 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi25K33%
- English13K17%
- Sinhala7.1K9%
- Assamese6.1K8%
- Telugu6.1K8%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 25,131 | 33% |
| English | 12,634 | 17% |
| Sinhala | 7,066 | 9% |
| Assamese | 6,105 | 8% |
| Telugu | 6,104 | 8% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 12 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 17 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 24 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 25 |
| 2004 | 25 |
| 2005 | 28 |
| 2006 | 32 |
| 2007 | 34 |
| 2008 | 25 |
| 2009 | 28 |
| 2010 | 27 |
| 2011 | 27 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 23 |
| 2014 | 31 |
| 2015 | 32 |
| 2016 | 38 |
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 19 |
| 2019 | 28 |
| 2020 | 26 |
| 2021 | 20 |
| 2022 | 21 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 17 |
| 2025 | 23 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sameera Ahmedpsychologist and a counselor based in US
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●
Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 6.1K | #813 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,486 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 561 | #909 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 95 | #8,836 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 62 | #6,896 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 60 | #10,661 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 56 | #9,486 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 42 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 41 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 38 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 36 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #13,996 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 121 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sameera?
- We estimate roughly 97 thousand people bear Sameera (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sameera have the most bearers?
- Sameera is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled самира.
- How common is Sameera compared with other names?
- In Russia, Sameera is the 367th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Sameera a male or female name?
- Sameera 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 Sameera mean?
- Recorded meaning: A male given name from Sanskrit, sometimes shortened to Sameer
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sameera” — the 367th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.