Samira
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Arabic origin, meaning "companion of the evening talks"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/samiʁa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Samira 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.
- 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 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)
Arabic origin, meaning "companion of the evening talks".
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Samira 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Samira is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Arabe, féminin de samīr « compagnon de veillée ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Swedish, Samira är en femininform till → Samir. En variantform är Semira.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Krsna (N); Vayu (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Siva (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit 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)
- Sameera Moussab. 1917EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian nuclear physicist (1917-1952)
- Samira Khashoggib. 1935SASaudi Arabian writer
- Samira Shahbandarb. 1946IQsecond wife of Saddam Hussein
- Samira Saidb. 1958MAMoroccan actress and singer
- Samira Ahmedb. 1968GBBritish television newsreader and reporter formerly on Channel 4 News
- Samira Sarayab. 1975ILPalestinian actress and nurse of Palestinian descent
- Samira Makhmalbafb. 1980IRIranian film director and screenwriter
- Samira Wileyb. 1987USAmerican actor and model
- Samira Magrounb. 1987TNTunisian actress
- Samira Efendib. 1991AZAzerbaijani singer
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 114 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 46K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 46K | #597 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 38K | #930 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 13K | #665 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 256 | #597 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Samira mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic origin, meaning "companion of the evening talks". Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Samira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Samira in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samira.
- What are other forms of the name Samira?
- In the etymology graph, Sameera is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Samira?
- A machine transcription gives /samiʁa/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Samira a male or female name?
- Samira 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.
- How common is the name Samira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 46,330 people named Samira in 2022, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Samira compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Samira is the 98th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Samira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/samiraThe 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, “Samira” — the 98th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.