Entry № 9138 · Arabic origin

Samira Samira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-MEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Companion in evening conversation (Samira Wiley, OITNB Emmy)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "companion in evening conversation (samira wiley, oitnb emmy)".

Samira (سميرة) is the feminine of Samir — from the Arabic samar ("evening conversation, storytelling under the moon") — the companion who entertains with stories in the evening. One of the most-popular Arabic-origin girls' names worldwide. The name appears across the entire Muslim world from Morocco to Indonesia.

Companion in evening conversation (Samira Wiley, OITNB Emmy) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

سميرة
Transliteration
Samīra
Pronunciation
/ səˈmiː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Samira stands.

Samira 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.

Samiras before her.

Real people
Samira Wiley
American Emmy-winning actress.
born 1987
Samira Said
Moroccan pop singer.
born 1959
Samira Makhmalbaf
Iranian filmmaker.
born 1980
In fiction
Samira
Various Arabic literature.

Names connected to Samira.

The number behind Samira.

7

The Seeker

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