Samatha · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Samatha.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1964

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 51 recorded years as a table

Samatha, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1964	5
1965	33
1966	20
1967	22
1968	30
1969	33
1970	28
1971	34
1972	32
1973	38
1974	39
1975	56
1976	60
1977	45
1978	65
1979	62
1980	51
1981	57
1982	74
1983	79
1984	84
1985	89
1986	121
1987	114
1988	125
1989	135
1990	116
1991	94
1992	93
1993	78
1994	67
1995	59
1996	44
1997	47
1998	47
1999	42
2000	31
2001	27
2002	27
2003	22
2004	23
2005	17
2006	8
2007	13
2008	12
2009	10
2010	8
2011	6
2013	5
2017	3
2018	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Samatha isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2018: 5
Rank in 2018: #15,682
How rare: 1 in 340,214 girls
Since 1964: 4,202

Samatha was last recorded in 2018. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1989, at 135 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Samatha doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.