Samir is an Arabic name, that means ‘loyal’ or ‘charming’. In the US, this name’s popularity is on the rise since the 1960s.
Samir is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Samir isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Samir ranks 667. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Samir. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Samir.
Samir is an Arabic name, that means ‘loyal’ or ‘charming’. In the US, this name’s popularity is on the rise since the 1960s.
Samir is also an Indian name,... meaning 'wind' or 'air' in Sanskrit.
Samir is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Samir cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #565 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Samir, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Samir seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Samir was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Samir is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Samir 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 Samir, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Samir
Samir
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
M
I
R
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
I
R
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. Samir sounds like this:
