Samantha

A girls’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning God has heard; feminine form of Samuel.

Babies a year
4,308
the US, 2017
Rarity
Common
among names in use
US popularity
#151
down from #127
UK popularity
#778
47 babies

How Samantha has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#26#96#165201520202025#151

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#40
2016#44
2017#54
2018#61
2019#80
2020#90
2021#106
2022#106
2023#114
2024#127
2025#151

Samantha by the numbers

In 2025, 47 babies in England and Wales were named Samantha. In the US, 4,308 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 25,866 babies in 1990, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

At its height, in 1990, about 1 in 79 American girls born that year was called Samantha.

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Samantha as a share of American girls born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Other names that come from Samuel

Like Samantha, each of these traces back to Samuel: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.

  • SamuelGod has heard10,339 in the US (2017)
  • SamGod has heard; form of Samuel115 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Shmuelgod has heard; hebrew form of Samuel214 in the US (2017)
  • Sammygod has heard; a form of Samuel28 in England and Wales (2025)
  • SammieGod has heard; a form of Samuel56 in the US (2017)
  • Sammihis name is God; diminutive of Samuel or Samantha26 in the US (2017)
  • SamualGod has heard; a variant spelling of Samuel22 in the US (2017)
  • SammuelGod has heard; a spelling variant of Samuel21 in the US (2017)

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Samantha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Samantaeven-minded or peaceful; a form of Samantha24 in the US (2017)
  • Samatha6 in the US (2017)
  • Sammantha5 in the US (2017)
  • Samhithacollected together; compilation of sacred texts12 in the US (2017)
  • Samanvithaharmonious or well-coordinated9 in the US (2017)
  • Savanha5 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean God

Like Samantha, each of these has God in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Isabellapledged to God15,112 in the US (2017)
  • Elizabethmy God is an oath8,924 in the US (2017)
  • Angelmessenger of God6,157 in the US (2017)
  • Auroradawn; Roman goddess of sunrise1,030 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Micahwho is like God3,924 in the US (2017)
  • GabriellaGod is my strength; form of Gabriel3,862 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Samantha

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