Samira is the feminine form of Samir, a name with two different meanings: In Arabic, it stands for ‘companion in evening talk’ from the verb ‘samara’, and in Sanskrit, it means ‘wind’ or ‘air’.
Samira is a first name for girls.
The name Samira 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 girls names, Samira ranks 922. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Samira. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Samira.
Samira is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Samira cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #711 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Samira, 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, Samira 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 Samira was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
You may not know anyone named Samira, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 30 states are home to women and girls named Samira. (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 Samira living in one state or another. If your name is Samira 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 Minnesota, which has the most people named Samira relative to the population, you still have to ask 9,338 women and girls their names before you hear Samira 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 six letters, the name Samira 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.
If your name is Samira 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 Samira, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Samira
Samira
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
M
I
R
A
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
A
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. Samira sounds like this:
