How popular is “Samaya” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Samaya” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Samaya” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Samaya” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Samaya” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1980	5	0.000001452	5	100%
1993	5	0.000001326	5	100%
1994	8	0.000002152	8	100%
1996	14	0.000003839	14	100%
1997	13	0.000003585	13	100%
1998	19	0.000005166	19	100%
1999	28	0.00000758	28	100%
2000	41	0.000010847	41	100%
2001	42	0.00001122	42	100%
2002	74	0.000019795	74	100%
2003	76	0.000019988	76	100%
2004	90	0.000023555	90	100%
2005	106	0.000027569	106	100%
2006	170	0.000042971	170	100%
2007	221	0.000055282	221	100%
2008	195	0.00004961	195	100%
2009	177	0.000046333	177	100%
2010	121	0.00003274	121	100%
2011	211	0.000057685	211	100%
2012	200	0.000054684	200	100%
2013	143	0.000039225	143	100%
2014	112	0.000030218	112	100%
2015	117	0.000031614	117	100%
2016	123	0.000033527	123	100%
2017	120	0.000033555	120	100%
2018	88	0.000025029	88	100%
2019	81	0.000023337	81	100%
2020	86	0.000025744	86	100%
2021	95	0.000028041	95	100%
2022	80	0.000023647	80	100%
2023	86	0.000025972	86	100%
2024	99	0.000029743	99	100%

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