Given name & surname
Samay
“time”
Samay is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “time.”
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Samay through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 486
- 445 boys · 41 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 43 babies
- 2025
- 43
- #2,926 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +65%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 43 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,926 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 93.5% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, California and Washington shared the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (7 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 493 as a first name in 2020; 177 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Samay’s family of names
In English usage, Samay has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form समय. In Hindi usage, Samay is a Roman-alphabet rendering of समय.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Samay
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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