Samantha
57
Babies in 2024
-63%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.85k
+8%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Samantha
Samantha peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (1,854 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 57 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Samantha reached its peak in 1996, when 1,854 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #32 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 57 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 12,697 girls have been officially registered with the name Samantha in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 968 girls were registered with the name, starting from 156 in 2014 and ending at 57 in 2024.