Samaiyah is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Samaiyah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Samaiyah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Samaiyah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Samaiyah ranks at #10,029. That means there are 10,028 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Samaiyah. Girls named Samaiyah have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 5,566 Samaiyah ranked higher than ever before in 1983. By comparison, there have been 110 years in which the first name Samaiyah has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2014. In general, parents name their daughters Samaiyah only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Samaiyah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Samaiyah continues to be a precious jewel: 6 newborns were named Samaiyah that year, ranking #11,784 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Samaiyah, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Samaiyah is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Samaiyah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Samaiyah, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Mouse
Apple
Igloo
Yoyo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Samaiyah
Samaiyah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
M
A
I
Y
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
M
A
I
Y
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Samaiyah sounds like this:
