Entry № 9121 · Arabic origin

Samah Samah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-MAH /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Forgiveness"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "forgiveness".

Samah is from the Arabic Samāḥ.

Forgiveness — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

سماح

Transliteration: Samāḥ
Pronunciation: / sɑːˈmɑː /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Samah stands.

Samah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Samahs before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Quran 7:199 / Islamic tolerance

Arabic forgiveness pardon + samaḥa to forgive + Quran 7:199 Take to forgiveness command what is right + Sama tolerance in Islamic ethics + Islamic ethical heritage

Quran

Names connected to Samah.

Numerology

The number behind Samah.

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Samah reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.