Entry № 9133 · Arabic origin

Samia Samia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAH-mee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Exalted / elevated"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "exalted / elevated".

Samia is from the Arabic Sāmiya.

Exalted / elevated — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

سامية
Transliteration
Sāmiya
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑː.mi.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Samia stands.

Samia 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.

Samias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Samia Yusuf Said
Somali Olympic sprinter died crossing Mediterranean 2012 + refugee crisis heritage + Quranic Asmaul Husna
Somali heritage

Names connected to Samia.

The number behind Samia.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Samia reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.