Samiha
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: generous, kind, true, sincere, good-hearted, large-hearted, open-handed; feminine of Samih
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɑmihə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Samiha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 33K
- USUnited States1 in 368K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
generous, kind, true, sincere, good-hearted, large-hearted, open-handed; feminine of Samih
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
How Samiha is read(measured from records)
Samiha is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic31%
generous, kind, true, sincere, good-hearted, large-hearted, open-handed; feminine of Samih
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
generous, kind, good-hearted, large- hearted, open-handed; fem of Samih
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- French16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Samiha in French.
- Turkish15%
Cömert, eli açık.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Samiha in English.
- Bangla5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Samiha in Bangla.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Samiha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #855 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 3 | Samiha | 58 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Samiha | 34 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Samiha | 52 |
| DZ Algeria | #759 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Samiha | 23 |
| TN Tunisia | #519 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Samiha | 18 |
| US United States | — | 905 | 1 in 368K | 902 | Samiha | 153 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Samiha | 17 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the wgnd-eg-names register; the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; Page provides top names for Bangladesh published by Students of the World.; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Samiha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Magnanimous.
as a nameThe African book of names
In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Samiha Ayverdib. 1905TRTurkish novelist and writer (1905–1993)
- Samiha Khalilb. 1923PSPalestinian politician (1923-1999)
- Samiha Ayubb. 1932EGEgyptian actress
- Samiha Khraisb. 1956JOJordanian novelist, journalist and translator
- Samiha Malehb. 1964CZscreenwriter
- Misha Omarb. 1982MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian singer and actress
- Samiha Mohsenb. 1998EGEgyptian swimmer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 902 | #13,373 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #13,373 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Samiha mean, and where does it come from?
- generous, kind, true, sincere, good-hearted, large-hearted, open-handed; feminine of Samih Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Samiha?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑmihə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Samiha a male or female name?
- Samiha 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 Samiha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Samiha in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samiha.
- How common is the name Samiha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 905 people named Samiha in 2020, about 1 in 368 thousand residents.
- How common is Samiha compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Samiha is the 855th most common given name of 29,323 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/samihaThe 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, “Samiha” — the 855th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.