Şamira
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Şamira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Persian سمیرا.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 461(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 616
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 461 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Samira in BR Brazil, MA Morocco, AZ Azerbaijan and 1 more, Самира in TJ Tajikistan, UZ Uzbekistan and Sameera in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Persianسمیرا(measured from records)
- Arabicسَمِيرَاءsamīrāʔ(inferred from the name graph)via سمیرا
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Persian سمیرا.
Sources 7
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şamira counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #98 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 616 | — | Samira | 85 |
| BR Brazil | — | 46,330 | 1 in 4.6K | 46K | Samira | 133 |
| DZ Algeria | #111 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Samira | 54 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #59 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 461 | — | Samira | 43 |
| FR France | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 13K | Sameera | 52 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #782 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | listed | Самира | 17 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #212 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | listed | Самира | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Şamira mean, and where does it come from?
- From Persian سمیرا. Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names and 5 other sources.
- Is Şamira a male or female name?
- Şamira is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Şamira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Şamira in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samira.
- How common is the name Şamira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 46,330 people named Şamira in 2022, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Şamira compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Şamira is the 98th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FamiraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Şamira” — the 98th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.