The name Samiyah is an alternate transcription of the Arabic name Samiya. It is the feminine form of Sami, which means ‘elevated’ or ‘sublime’.
Samiyah is a first name for girls.
Samiyah 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 1,029 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,028 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 Samiyah.
Samiyah is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Samiyah cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #749 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2011. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Samiyah, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Samiyah 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 Samiyah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
146 babies were named Samiyah in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,015,287 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Samiyah ranked 1,352 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Samiyah, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 28 states are home to women and girls named Samiyah. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Samiyah living in one state or another. If your name is Samiyah and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In New Jersey, which has the most people named Samiyah relative to the population, you still have to ask 14,123 women and girls their names before you hear Samiyah as an answer just once.
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 seven letters, the name Samiyah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.
If your name is Samiyah 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 Samiyah, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Yoyo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Samiyah
Samiyah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
M
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
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. Samiyah sounds like this:
