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Samatha

Girls' name · Late 20th-century · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~4,100 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025
0 4,202 since 1880
Typical age
37 years, median

Samatha popularity over time

Samatha rank by birth year, 1964–2018Samatha ranked #4,636 in 1964 and #15,682 in 2018. Its best rank in the period was #780, in 1989.#1,000#10,000#15,682best #780 in 198919701980199020002010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1964–2018. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Samatha in 1989 than in any other year — 248 of them. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1964. No births were recorded under this name in 2025; the most recent year with data is 2018.

Babies named Samatha per yearPeaks at 248 births in 1989.248 in 1989019701980199020002010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Samatha?

An estimated 4,100 living Americans are called Samatha. That is out of 4,202 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Samatha?

Median age among living Samathas: 37. The 1980s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Samatha a late 20th-century name.

Your Samatha

Ages of living people named SamathaHalf of living Samathas are older than 37 and half younger.median 370204060
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where the name Samatha comes from

From Sanskrit समाधान (śamatha) meaning "tranquility" and "concentration" (referring to Buddhist meditation) or "equality".

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Names similar to Samatha

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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