Fun Facts About the Name Semir
- 278 babies named Semir: U.S. records list 278 babies given the name Semir from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Semir Mean?
Semir is a masculine name meaning "companion in night conversation," and it comes from Arabic. It is a regional form of the Arabic name Samīr (سمير), which is built on the root s-m-r. The related verb samara means to spend the evening or night in talk, and the noun samīr is the person who shares that talk - an evening companion or an entertaining conversationalist. The literal sense concerns night-time company, not friendship in general.
The spelling Semir reflects how the Arabic name is written in Bosnian, Albanian, and Turkish, where the first vowel is represented by e. The feminine counterpart is Samira, and Samir and Sameer are other spellings of the same Arabic name. Semir is not a Slavic compound: the -mir in names such as Vladimir and Miroslav goes back to a Slavic word for "peace" or "world" and is unrelated to this name's Arabic root.
Semir Name History & Origins
Arabic Samīr belongs to a common group of Arabic personal names formed on the faʿīl pattern, and it has long been used as an ordinary given name across the Arabic-speaking world. It entered southeastern Europe with the Ottoman Empire, whose administration and Muslim institutions carried Arabic and Turkish naming customs into Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and neighboring areas.
In those regions the name settled into local spelling as Semir, used mainly by Bosniak, Albanian, and other Muslim families in the Balkans, and it is also found in Turkey. The same Arabic source produced Samir in English- and French-speaking countries and Samira for women, but Semir developed as a regional spelling in its own right rather than as a borrowing from English.
How Popular is the Name Semir?
Semir has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2001. Its best rank was #4,265 in 2001.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #10,504 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #7,634 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #7,648 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #12,071 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2021 | #7,026 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2020 | #11,788 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #7,553 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2018 | #9,521 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #8,040 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2016 | #7,071 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #7,943 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2014 | #10,538 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #8,001 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #8,756 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2011 | #14,002 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #11,946 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #8,877 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2008 | #8,891 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 2007 | #8,805 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 2006 | #7,902 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2005 | #11,229 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2004 | #6,080 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2003 | #6,648 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2002 | #6,965 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2001 | #4,265 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2000 | #6,743 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1999 | #5,975 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1998 | #6,220 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #10,545 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1996 | #10,282 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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