Samira

Meaning: “breeze; wind”
Origin: Sanskrit — From samīra

Meaning: “entertaining companion”
Origin: Arabic — Feminine of Samir

Girl's name · #723 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Samira is climbing: on the charts since 1961, it reached #723 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 390 girls given the name last year. Roughly 8,900 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 27 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#95 in Ecuador (2025) · #112 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #256 in Switzerland (2025) · #323 in Austria (2025) · #451 in Norway (2025) · #454 in Poland (2025) · #626 in France (2025) · #699 in Sweden (2025) · #906 in Mexico (2024) · #927 in Belgium (2025) · #1,023 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,183 in Canada (2024).

Famous Samiras

Samira Said — Moroccan actress and singer
Samira Efendi — Azerbaijani singer
Samira Wiley — American actor and model
Samira Makhmalbaf — Iranian film director and screenwriter
Samira Tawfiq — Musical artist

In stories & tradition

Samira Mohan — The Pitt (TV series)
Samira — Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (novel series)
Samira Adin — General Hospital (TV series)

What Samiras become

Among 277 notable people named Samira:

Entertainers appear 1.58× more often than among typical names — e.g. Samira Said, Moroccan actress and singer.

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Samirah (#2562), Samira would rank around #637 with about 460 births last year — the newborns split about 85/15 between Samira and Samirah.

Similar names: Zhamira · Noor · Zaira · Meera · Khadija · Zainab

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