Samia

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Samia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh. In Tunisia it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: eminently exalted, lofty, elevated, high-minded, sublime; fem.

rarermore common
  • TNTunisia1 in 656◐
  • BDBangladesh1 in 2.2K
  • EGEgypt1 in 2.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈39K ●

across 6 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
229 ●

84K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.5K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

SamiaLatin · Portuguese●207K records
เสมยThai · Thai●100 records
ΣαμιαGreek · Greek●0 records

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●

eminently exalted, lofty, elevated, high-minded, sublime; fem. of Sami

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Samia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#240127,6630 rec.——Samia2
EG Egypt#34515,9104.5K rec.——Samia88
FR France—15,130△32 rec.1 in 4.5K15K—4
BR Brazil—14,434△5.9K rec.1 in 15K15KSamia122
TN Tunisia#386,0652.2K rec.—1.8KSamia51
US United States—6,06131K rec.1 in 55K6.1KSamia229
SY Syria#7825,0565.5K rec.——Samia15
MA Morocco#3934,1954.3K rec.——Samia74
DZ Algeria#1503,6364.2K rec.——Samia54
ES Spain—1,9762K rec.1 in 25K2KSamia46
GB United Kingdom—1,9312.1K rec.—3Samia92
AU Australia—1,5651.8K rec.——Samia74

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese207K28%
  • English168K23%
  • Bangla131K18%
  • French128K17%
  • Arabic46K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese207,16228%
English168,27523%
Bangla131,12618%
French127,54117%
Arabic46,0846%

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◐

Samia is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla given name142K records spelled Samia85 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Samiya, Самия, Samiyah, সামিয়া, Самиа

  • Turkish given name3.5K records spelled Samia9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Afghanistan

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Şamia, Şąmįä, Şamiã, Sâmia, Şâmïa

  • a separate given name2.0K records spelled Samia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Morocco, Algeria, India

    Also written Sâmia, Såmia, Sāmia

  • Danish given name1.5K records spelled Samia7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Sàmià, Sâmia

  • Indonesian given name1.3K records spelled Samia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Morocco

    Also written Samįā, Sãmíã, Sâmia

  • Finnish given name812 records spelled Samia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Spain, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Såmîä, Sâmia

  • Italian given name334 records spelled Samia5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Sâmia, Sãmiä, Sàmià, Samįa

53 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●

Samia 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 French, Arabe, féminin de Sami; « élevée, sublime ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Swedish, Samia är femininform till det arabiska → Sami och betyder ’den upphöjda’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Uganda/Kenya: people who speak a Bantu language; also Muslim female name meaning 'noble' or 'lofty'

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In French, Feminine of Samy; Arabic usage.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Arabic, listener

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

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●

0501001501960198020002020140 · 2006

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Samia in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1951–2025
Yearrecords
19516
195211
195314
19547
19568
19615
19636
19645
19655
196611
19678
19687
196912
197014
197119
197213
197314
197415
197529
197610
197713
197822
197928
198034
198131
198220
198327
198421
198530
198635
198734
198834
198920
199035
199137
199245
199333
199445
199539
199640
199751
199870
199981
200069
200178
200288
2003117
2004106
2005133
2006140
2007134
2008125
2009104
2010107
201184
201281
201392
201476
2015119
2016126
2017119
201898
201999
202086
202187
202267
202363
202466
202572

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 69 years between 1951–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Samia Gamal, b. 1924Samia Shoaib, b. 1953Samia al-Amoudi, b. 1957Samia Suluhu Hassan, b. 1960Samia Nkrumah, b. 1960Samia Ghali, b. 1968Samia Jadda, b. 1976Samia Smith, b. 1982Samia Yusuf Omar, b. 1991Samia Finnerty, b. 1996

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 84 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Samia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202415K#1,109
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—15K#1,679
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202214K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—14K#1,329
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.1K#3,426
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2K#1,748
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19801.8K#10
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.8K#960
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.1K#884
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—640#2,318
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—620#2,186
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020550—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 590 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Samia?
We estimate roughly 39 thousand people bear Samia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Samia have the most bearers?
Samia is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled samia.
How common is Samia compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Samia is the 240th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Samia a male or female name?
Samia 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 Samia mean?
Recorded meaning: eminently exalted, lofty, elevated, high-minded, sublime; fem.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Samia” — the 240th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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