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Samantha

An English feminine of Samuel, Hebrew at root, "God has heard". Fewer than 700 women in Poland carry it and it keeps slipping: most Poles have never met one, and only a couple of girls got the name last year.

Samantha Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
684
Newborns 2025
2
National rank
#1136

What Samantha means

Where Samantha comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Samantha begins with Samuel, a Hebrew name meaning "God has heard." The feminine form took shape in English use, and by the eighteenth century it turns up in records across England and its American colonies. The ending pulled a second meaning toward it. Many trace the "-antha" to the Greek anthos, "flower," which gave Samantha its softer gloss, a bloom set beside the older prayer.

So the name holds two readings at once. In Polish it comes through as kwiat boży and bóg wysłuchał, the flower of God and the answered prayer. Both belong to it.

The name is short. On a Polish class register it sits among the newer arrivals, a form with no diminutive of its own and no cross-gender variant, written plainly as Samanta. What it offers is the Hebrew root under an English surface: God has heard, and the flower grown from that hearing.

How many people are named Samantha

1 in 33250 women in Poland is named Samantha. 684 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1136 among female names.

People with the name Samantha 2019 → 2025
684 +221 since 2019
2020 479 +16
2021 501 +22
2022 539 +38
2023 586 +47
2024 628 +42
2025 684 +56

Samantha's popularity over time

2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1814 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #1136 name among living women, even as it slips to #1814 among newborns.

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2 newborns with the name Samantha in 2025
national rank #1814 that year

Where Samantha is most popular

Samantha is most popular in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 559% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+217%) and Masovian (+103%).

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Samantha as a middle name

Samantha is a first name for 684 women in Poland and a middle name for another 155, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 532nd, between Anida (155) and Aida (154).

As a first name
684
As a middle name
155
first name 82% middle name 18%
Middle-name ranking women

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