Samira

Samaira (also spelled Samirah, Sameera, and Sameerah /sæˈmiːrə/, Persian: سميرا‎‎ Arabic: سميرة‎‎ Sanskrit: समीरा) is a female given name which has its various origins in Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic as well as being common to other Semitic languages.
In Persian, Samira is the first part of Semiramis's name (/sɛˈmɪrəməs/ Assyrian: ܫܲܡܝܼܪܵܡ, Greek: Σεμίραμις, Armenian: Շամիրամ) who was a Persian princess, a Babylonian warrior, and the legendary wife of King Ninus who succeeded him to the throne of Assyria. Nearly every stupendous work of antiquity by the Euphrates or in Iran seems to have ultimately been ascribed to her, including the Behistun Inscription of Darius. Herodotus ascribes to her the artificial banks that confined the Euphrates and knows her name as borne by a gate of Babylon. However, Diodorus stresses that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built long after Semiramis.
The spelling of the Sanskrit-derived name can change depending on the language, as in the Bengali version Somira. Samirah is also a common Arabic name from the root s-m-r relating to the masdar tasāmur (Arabic: تسامر‎‎) ultimately meaning she who is of pleasant company. The masculine version of this name is Samir (Arabic: سمير‎‎).

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Derived from samir: companion in evening conversations.

Samera, Samir, Marissa, Samantha, Samirah, Maris, Sameera, Amira, Marrisa, Maria

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Samira Wiley	1987	American stage actor
2	Samira Shahbandar		Saddam Huaaein's wife
3	Samira Khashoggi	1935	Saudi Arabian writer
4	Samira Ahmed	1968	British television newsreader and reporter on Channel 4 News
5	Samira Koppikar		Playback Singer, Composer
6	Samira Said	1958	Moroccan singer
7	Samira Lachhab		French actress
8	Samira Tawfiq	1935
9	Samira Fazal	1976	Pakistani writer
10	Samira Makhmalbaf	1980	Iranian film director and screenwriter
11	Samira Samii	1977	German-Iranian football agent
12	Samira El Ouassil	1985	German actress
13	Samira Magroun	1987	Tunisian actor
14	Samira Bellil	1972	French feminist activist and a campaigner for the rights of girls and women
15	Samira Fernandes	1984
16	Samira Bawumia		Politician, Second lady of Ghana
17	Samira Mohamed Ali	1984	Welsh actress, beauty queen, model, and television presenter
18	Samira Sahraoui		Algerian actress
19	Samira Ibrahim	1986	Women's rights activist
20	Samira Bouchibti	1970	Dutch politician and presenter
21	Samira Sitail	1964	Moroccan journalist
22	Samira Khalil		Syrian activist
23	Samira Rocha	1989	Brazilian handball player
24	Samira Abdel Aziz	1935	Egyptian actress
25	Samira Rathod		Indian architect and designer
26	Samira Hashi	1991	Somali model
27	Samira Alikhanzadeh	1967
28	Samira Hurem	1972
29	Samira Suleman	1991	Ghanaian association football player
30	Samira Saleh al-Naimi	1963	Iraqi human rights activist and lawyer
31	Samira Jassim	1958	Iraqi insurgent
32	Samira Islam		Saudi pharmacologist
33	Samira Azzam	1927	Palestinian writer, broadcaster, and translator
34	Samira bint Mohamed Al-Moosa
35	Samira Negrouche	1980	Writer
36	Samira Khayach Belhaj	1953	Tunisian politician
37	Samira Raif	1974	Moroccan distance runner
38	Samira Ouass	1992
39	Samira Amirova	1998
40	Samira Merai	1963	Tunisian politician
41	Samira Kitman
42	Samira Munir	1963	Norwegian politician
43	Samira Mustafayeva	1993	Azerbaijani gymnast
44	Samira El Idrissi	1992	Dutch taekwondo practitioner of mixed Frisian-Moroccan descent
45	Samira Zehtabchi	1991
46	Samira Chaiter	1973
47	Samira Chhab
48	Samira Mezeghrane	1979