Name meaning & stats
Samara
Samara means “breeze, wind” (Persian origin). 22,769 US babies since 1940, peak 2018.
What it means
“breeze, wind”
PersianSpelling of Samira
In US birth records
Peak year: 2018
22,769 US babies were named Samara between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Samara (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 42% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2018)