Samar
12
Babies in 2024
+100%
10-year change
2011
Peak · 18
+20%
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 Samar
Samar is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (12) are up 100% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Samar reached its peak in 2011, when 18 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,608 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 12 represents 67% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 284 girls have been officially registered with the name Samar in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 111 girls were registered with the name, starting from 6 in 2014 and ending at 12 in 2024.