Samar
12
Babies in 2024
-57%
10-year change
2014
Peak · 28
-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 has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 12 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 57% on a decade earlier.
Samar reached its peak in 2014, when 28 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,012 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 43% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 21 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 270 boys have been officially registered with the name Samar in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 193 boys were registered with the name, starting from 28 in 2014 and ending at 12 in 2024.