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The first name 
Samaya

Samaya is a female first name.

Samaya is a well-known but special name!

Samaya is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,657 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,656 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Samaya.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Samaya

Samaya -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Samaya are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Samaya in 23 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut or Florida. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Samaya live in Florida – here, one in 19,485 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 84,155 will turn around if you call her first name Samaya.

Samaya has 6 letters 
and begins with an S

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 six letters, the name Samaya is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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.

Other names with 
S, a, m, a, y and a

If you take all the letters in the name Samaya – S, a, m, a, y and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Saamya or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Samaya

If your name is Samaya 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...

This is how you spell the name Samaya

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Samaya, you can simply say:

Sun

Apple

Mouse

Apple

Yoyo

Apple

This is how the name Samaya is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Samaya in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Samaya

Samaya

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Samaya

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Samaya is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
A
M
A
Y
A

Have you ever waved the name Samaya

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.

S
A
M
A
Y
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Samaya sounds like this: