Samayah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 24 babies a year in the US.
Samayah by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Samayah. In the US, 24 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 45 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Samayah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Samayah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Samiyahexalted, lofty, sublime218 in the US (2017)
- Samarahevening conversation; a form of Samara75 in the US (2017)
- Sarayahprincess of god; a form of Sarah8 in England and Wales (2025)
- Samyahlofty; exalted; feminine form of Samiy20 in the US (2017)
- Sumayahelevated or lofty; variant of Sumaiya16 in England and Wales (2025)
- Samaya120 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Samayah
Names that are said the same way as Samayah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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