Samantha
Samantha places #151 across the country in 2025, cooling off gently. Its record runs from 1880 through a 1990 peak, 592,847 children in all.
Samantha’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Samantha, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Samantha since 1880
Samantha peaked in 1990 at #5; #151 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Samantha is most common
The state that gives Samantha most often, per girls born there, is District of Columbia (0.35% in 2025); Delaware and Maryland are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Samantha
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Savannah
#135 in 2025
Summer
#152 in 2025
Nathaniel
#140 in 2025 · Hebrew
Antonio
#176 in 2025 · Latin
Nicolas
#177 in 2025 · Greek
Sara
#198 in 2025 · Hebrew
Nicholas
#112 in 2025 · Greek
Jasmine
#206 in 2025
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About Samantha
How popular is the name Samantha?
Samantha places #151 across the country in 2025, cooling off gently. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Samantha?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Samantha keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Is there a sibling name for Samantha?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Savannah, Summer and Nathaniel, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Samantha’s free Name Kit
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