Samira Forename
475th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,529,089 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Iran
Highest density in:
Lebanon
Samira Forename User-submission:
It is an Arabic and Persian female given name, which means 'Samaritans', 'speech at night'. The Arabic version is derived from the root s-m-r, relating to the masdar tasāmur (Arabic: تسامر), ultimately meaning 'she who is of pleasant company and loved'.
Read More About This ForenameSamira Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 100% | 330,611 | 1:237 | 42 |
| Morocco | 100% | 145,326 | 1:236 | 52 |
| Algeria | 99% | 129,540 | 1:295 | 64 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 100,792 | 1:1,928 | 350 |
| Iraq | 96% | 99,468 | 1:352 | 65 |
| Yemen | - | 69,601 | 1:378 | 64 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 67,726 | 1:2,355 | 319 |
| Afghanistan | 99% | 43,774 | 1:745 | 133 |
| Sudan | 100% | 41,447 | 1:912 | 165 |
| Egypt | 100% | 37,347 | 1:2,461 | 350 |
| Chad | 99% | 35,898 | 1:379 | 42 |
| Nigeria | 99% | 35,274 | 1:5,034 | 827 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 28,458 | 1:294 | 48 |
| Brazil | 100% | 27,825 | 1:7,699 | 932 |
| Jordan | 100% | 26,913 | 1:328 | 61 |
| Syria | - | 24,895 | 1:776 | 150 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 24,502 | 1:230 | 30 |
| India | 67% | 21,915 | 1:55,436 | 7,345 |
| Palestine | 100% | 18,433 | 1:247 | 31 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 17,331 | 1:1,776 | 395 |
| Niger | 96% | 15,184 | 1:1,263 | 229 |
| Russia | 100% | 14,250 | 1:10,122 | 367 |
| France | 100% | 13,587 | 1:4,892 | 437 |
| Kenya | - | 9,479 | 1:4,885 | 773 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 9,209 | 1:3,346 | 554 |
| Somalia | - | 8,616 | 1:1,570 | 261 |
| Ghana | 100% | 8,484 | 1:3,181 | 473 |
| Somaliland | 100% | 8,434 | 1:415 | 95 |
| Ethiopia | 99% | 7,860 | 1:12,412 | 1,776 |
| Mozambique | - | 7,680 | 1:3,547 | 728 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 7,557 | 1:6,985 | 1,035 |
| Spain | 100% | 7,179 | 1:6,481 | 576 |
| United States | 100% | 6,051 | 1:59,914 | 3,160 |
| Philippines | 98% | 4,924 | 1:21,529 | 2,168 |
| Libya | - | 4,774 | 1:1,303 | 253 |
| Kuwait | - | 4,369 | 1:866 | 130 |
| Uganda | 99% | 4,142 | 1:9,888 | 994 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 4,089 | 1:1,749 | 190 |
| Oman | 100% | 3,331 | 1:1,233 | 191 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 3,201 | 1:5,280 | 796 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 3,148 | 1:6,607 | 1,068 |
| Belgium | 100% | 3,051 | 1:3,766 | 654 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 2,619 | 1:98,497 | 11,102 |
| England | 100% | 2,233 | 1:24,901 | 1,461 |
| Colombia | 100% | 2,066 | 1:23,126 | 1,511 |
| Togo | - | 2,060 | 1:3,514 | 580 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 1,931 | 1:1,825 | 462 |
| Sweden | 100% | 1,852 | 1:5,323 | 583 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,805 | 1:18,356 | 1,722 |
| Angola | 100% | 1,754 | 1:15,374 | 1,486 |
| Azerbaijan | 98% | 1,667 | 1:5,785 | 927 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 1,657 | 1:409 | 63 |
| Djibouti | - | 1,435 | 1:638 | 146 |
| Congo | 100% | 1,343 | 1:3,730 | 590 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,286 | 1:75,177 | 1,782 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 1,176 | 1:4,654 | 429 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 1,175 | 1:18,392 | 1,713 |
| Georgia | 99% | 1,047 | 1:3,571 | 466 |
| Mexico | 100% | 1,037 | 1:119,715 | 2,788 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 1,028 | 1:29,379 | 2,136 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 940 | 1:18,880 | 1,232 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 934 | 1:567 | 71 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 834 | 1:22,038 | 1,942 |
| Comoros | - | 784 | 1:971 | 176 |
| Gabon | 100% | 762 | 1:2,472 | 591 |
| Bahrain | - | 666 | 1:2,025 | 340 |
| Benin | 100% | 664 | 1:15,927 | 1,851 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 568 | 1:18,365 | 1,782 |
| Thailand | 100% | 422 | 1:166,033 | 11,741 |
| Turkey | 100% | 416 | 1:187,023 | 4,328 |
| Mali | 100% | 387 | 1:43,870 | 2,498 |
| Poland | 99% | 330 | 1:115,234 | 2,410 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 321 | 1:25,587 | 1,594 |
| Denmark | - | 300 | 1:18,832 | 1,156 |
| Australia | - | 286 | 1:47,754 | 2,304 |
| Malaysia | 94% | 271 | 1:112,361 | 7,656 |
| DR Congo | 92% | 267 | 1:276,508 | 11,222 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 259 | 1:9,493 | 874 |
| Italy | 100% | 252 | 1:242,310 | 3,267 |
| Norway | 100% | 244 | 1:21,034 | 1,244 |
| Guinea | 100% | 237 | 1:50,036 | 1,633 |
| Romania | 100% | 231 | 1:86,805 | 4,016 |
| South Africa | 99% | 231 | 1:236,072 | 14,440 |
| Portugal | - | 221 | 1:47,108 | 1,672 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 219 | 1:2,898 | 505 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 190 | 1:31,438 | 3,338 |
| Austria | 100% | 182 | 1:46,781 | 1,457 |
| Honduras | 100% | 177 | 1:49,816 | 2,264 |
| Belarus | 99% | 159 | 1:59,638 | 713 |
| Argentina | 100% | 139 | 1:307,721 | 2,988 |
| Croatia | 100% | 134 | 1:31,471 | 1,363 |
| Albania | 100% | 133 | 1:22,907 | 2,786 |
| Chile | 100% | 131 | 1:134,406 | 2,989 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 126 | 1:127,845 | 2,469 |
| Kosovo | - | 115 | 1:16,186 | 2,014 |
| Peru | 100% | 89 | 1:357,207 | 7,283 |
| Ecuador | - | 86 | 1:206,127 | 3,498 |
| Malawi | 100% | 85 | 1:201,321 | 8,458 |
| Finland | 100% | 84 | 1:65,276 | 1,940 |
| Serbia | 100% | 84 | 1:85,068 | 2,567 |
| Panama | 100% | 78 | 1:50,084 | 3,339 |
| Ivory Coast | 95% | 77 | 1:299,687 | 13,165 |
| Ireland | 100% | 67 | 1:69,306 | 1,986 |
| New Zealand | - | 59 | 1:76,882 | 3,591 |
| Scotland | 100% | 59 | 1:90,684 | 2,231 |
| Greece | 100% | 53 | 1:206,312 | 4,151 |
| Belize | 100% | 52 | 1:6,814 | 1,210 |
| Czechia | 97% | 51 | 1:208,944 | 1,626 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 49 | 1:235,735 | 640 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 47 | 1:12,001 | 913 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 47 | 1:128,050 | 4,006 |
| Wales | 100% | 41 | 1:75,471 | 2,139 |
| Senegal | 100% | 35 | 1:416,610 | 5,939 |
| Maldives | 100% | 28 | 1:15,497 | 729 |
| Qatar | 100% | 26 | 1:91,139 | 11,761 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 26 | 1:3,564 | 725 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 26 | 1:131,832 | 2,999 |
| Eritrea | 67% | 25 | 1:190,119 | 176 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 23 | 1:37,873 | 1,806 |
| Estonia | 100% | 23 | 1:57,190 | 3,101 |
| Malta | - | 23 | 1:18,668 | 1,434 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 21 | 1:332,876 | 6,441 |
| Haiti | 100% | 19 | 1:564,576 | 12,776 |
| Liberia | 100% | 19 | 1:232,214 | 7,898 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 17 | 1:15,892 | 1,309 |
| China | - | 16 | 1:85,378,486 | 64,025 |
| Madagascar | - | 16 | 1:1,476,838 | 2,504 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 16 | 1:452,300 | 4,719 |
| Hungary | 100% | 15 | 1:652,785 | 2,218 |
| Armenia | 100% | 14 | 1:208,482 | 3,697 |
| El Salvador | - | 14 | 1:452,985 | 4,295 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 14 | 1:13,714 | 1,383 |
| Israel | 100% | 13 | 1:646,378 | 11,150 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 13 | 1:104,725 | 7,155 |
| Central African Republic | - | 9 | 1:501,710 | 504 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 9 | 1:529,772 | 7,736 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 8 | 1:511,905 | 10,283 |
| Japan | - | 7 | 1:18,283,722 | 43,935 |
| Moldova | - | 7 | 1:508,734 | 3,126 |
| Cuba | - | 6 | 1:1,917,759 | 4,898 |
| Nepal | - | 6 | 1:4,747,892 | 50,788 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 6 | 1:79,273 | 1,016 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 6 | 1:18,291 | 1,938 |
| Monaco | 100% | 5 | 1:7,693 | 1,062 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 5 | 1:710,060 | 4,535 |
| Bermuda | - | 4 | 1:16,206 | 1,525 |
| Burundi | 100% | 4 | 1:2,476,640 | 1,357 |
| Iceland | - | 4 | 1:91,504 | 3,703 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Singapore | 100% | 4 | 1:1,571,764 | 18,508 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 4 | 1:1,327,516 | 4,597 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Bolivia | - | 3 | 1:3,533,801 | 5,917 |
| Mauritius | - | 3 | 1:432,595 | 7,262 |
| South Korea | - | 3 | 1:1,848,140 | 23,578 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 2 | 1:921,573 | 3,058 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Hong Kong | - | 2 | 1:3,876,362 | 13,851 |
| Papua New Guinea | 50% | 2 | 1:4,076,157 | 155,819 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Abkhazia | - | 1 | 1:243,422 | 3,525 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Botswana | - | 1 | 1:2,184,449 | 21,741 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Jamaica | - | 1 | 1:2,883,227 | 22,340 |
| Jersey | - | 1 | 1:99,980 | 2,122 |
| Latvia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Taiwan | - | 1 | 1:23,769,682 | 193,280 |
| Zambia | - | 1 | 1:15,854,794 | 66,637 |
The alternate forms: Samíra (4), Şamira (3) & Samirà (2) are calculated separately.
Samira (27,032) may also be a surname.
Samira Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
It is an Arabic and Persian female given name, which means 'Samaritans', 'speech at night'. The Arabic version is derived from the root s-m-r, relating to the masdar tasāmur (Arabic: تسامر), ultimately meaning 'she who is of pleasant company and loved'.
- samooor24The name Samira or Samirah means 'princess' in Persian and 'loved princess' in Arabic. It is derived from the name of an ancient Assyrian princess Semiramis.
- 17shirsiSamira Forename Popularity
Samira Demographics
Average Samira Salary in
United States
$45,971 USD
Per year
Rank:
171,047 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.00161945
Rank: 3,136 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
105.61%
Sample size: 2,904 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Samira Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Samira in the Russian language | ||
| Самира | samira | - |
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