Samira
A Hebrew name that means "companion in evening talk". Around 600 women in Poland carry it, few enough that most people here have never met one.
Samira Pronunciation
Samira is pronounced sah-MEE-rah (/saˈmira/).
What Samira means
Where Samira comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Samira grows from a Hebrew root, then found its home in Arabic culture, where its warmest meaning took shape. There the name leans on samar, the word Arabic keeps for talk that happens after dark. A Samira is a companion in evening conversation, the person who stays to speak once the day has closed.
The name carries no diminutives and no variant spellings to fall back on. Nothing gets clipped into a nickname. Samira keeps its three syllables whole, and the ending stays soft and open.
Read from a class register at the start of a school year, it needs no correction and no second try. That ease belongs to the sound. And the meaning stays close to where it began, in the Arabic word for evening talk, samar.
How many people are named Samira
1 in 36957 women in Poland is named Samira. 610 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1213 among female names.
Samira's popularity over time
6 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #893 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2003.
Where Samira is most popular
Samira is most popular in Lubusz, 296% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+288%) and Podlaskie (+199%). It is least common in Greater Poland, 9% below average.
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Lubusz2 girls born+296%
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Silesian9 girls born+288%
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Podlaskie2 girls born+199%
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Masovian5 girls born+39%
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Pomeranian2 girls born+33%
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Greater Poland2 girls born−9%
Samira as a middle name
Samira is a first name for 610 women in Poland and a middle name for another 87, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 713th, between Kaya (88) and Adolfina (86).
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#711 Marysia89
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#712 Kaya88
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#713 Samira87
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#714 Adolfina86
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#715 Louisa86