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Samir

An Arabic name that means "companion in evening talk". Only about 1,200 men in Poland carry it, and it's given less often now than back in the 2000s, so most people here have never met one.

Samir Pronunciation

Samir is pronounced SAH-meer (/ˈsamir/).

Alive in 2025
1,169
Newborns 2025
5
National rank
#890
Meaning & Origin

What Samir means

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

Samir belongs to the Arabic-speaking world, a name heard from Syria to Morocco to the Gulf. Its short meaning is a companion in evening talk. The Arabic root samar names the cool hours after sunset, when neighbours gather to sit and speak, and a samir is the one who keeps you company through them.

The name carries no Polish diminutive, no local short form to trim it down. It needs none. On a class register in Kraków it stands as Samir, complete, a few lines above Zuzanna.

Real bearers give the name its record. Samir Nasri played football for France and Manchester City. Samir Amin, born in Cairo in 1931, became one of the sharpest economists writing on the global South. Both answered to a name that means, plainly, the companion of evening talk.

How many

How many people are named Samir

1 in 18260 men in Poland is named Samir. 1,169 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #890 among male names.

Living Samirs · 2019 → 2025
1,169 +754 since 2019
+39 2020
+51 2021
+122 2022
+242 2023
+166 2024
+134 2025
Trend

Samir's popularity over time

5 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #957 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2005. Still the #890 name among living men, even as it slips to #957 among newborns.

5 newborn Samirs in 2025
national rank #957 that year
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Regions

Where Samir is most popular

Samir is most popular in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 204% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+119%) and Lower Silesian (+112%).

More common than average Less common than average
Middle name

Samir as a middle name

Samir is a first name for 1,169 men in Poland and a middle name for another 158, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 555th, between Kenneth (159) and Xawery (158).

As a first name
1,169
As a middle name
158
first name · 88% middle name · 12%
Middle-name ranking · men

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