Samarrah
Samarra is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, 125 kilometers (78 mi) north of Baghdad. The modern city of Samarra was founded in 836 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim as a new administrative capital and military base. In 2003 the city had an estimated population of 348,700.
Meaning & Origin of Samarrah
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Samarra is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, 125 kilometers (78 mi) north of Baghdad. The modern city of Samarra was founded in 836 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim as a new administrative capital and military base. In 2003 the city had an estimated population of 348,700.
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Origin & history
The Story of Samarrah
Samarrah first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 2004, with 7 babies given the name that year. Its peak popularity came in 2006, when 15 Samarrahs were born — ranking #7,868 that year. As of 2026, Samarrah ranks #15,899 for baby girls with 5 births, with steady use. In total, more than 70 Samarrahs have been born in the U.S. since records began in 1880, spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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Notable people named Samarrah
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- Ahmed Abdul Ghafoor [ ar ] , former head of the Sunni Endowment Office with the rank of Minister.
- Saleh al-Badri (1893–1943), poet
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971–2019), Iraqi militant leader who led the Islamic State and its predecessor group the Islamic State of Iraq from 2010 until his death in 2019.
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About the name Samarrah
Samarrah is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2004 and has accumulated 70 births in the dataset. Samarrah's peak popularity came in 2006 when it ranked #7,868. Use the chart and map above to compare Samarrah's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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