Samareh as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Samareh

What is the meaning of the name Samareh ?

The baby name Samareh is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced sah-MAH-reh.

Samareh is Persian in Origin.

Samareh is a Persian feminine name from the noun samareh (ثمره), inherited from Arabic thamara, meaning “fruit, yield, outcome.” In Persian it also conveys “result,” “reward,” and by extension “blessing” - a poetic way to describe a child as the fruit of life or love.

As a given name, it gained visibility in Iran and Persian-speaking communities in the late 20th century, paralleling a trend of abstract, virtue- or nature-inflected feminine names; the word itself has long appeared in classical Persian verse (samare-ye … “the fruit of …”). Common variants and transliterations include Samare, Samarah, Samara, and the Arabic forms Thamara/Thamarah; note that Samara may also be a distinct Slavic or Hebrew-rooted name in other contexts. Related semantic cousins include Thamar/Tamar “date palm,” though with different etymology. The name remains relatively rare internationally yet familiar across Iran, Afghanistan, and the Persian diaspora.

⚙ Samareh is a rare find. There are only 25 recorded uses of it in our data, from 7 countries.