Sami
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births · #1,112 for boys in 2025, 193 births
Given to boys 78.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 174 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,303since 1955
Sami over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,878 | 27 | #1,112 | 193 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #1,262 | 156 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #1,300 | 147 |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 | #1,468 | 123 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #1,349 | 137 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 | #1,313 | 137 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #1,432 | 122 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | #1,188 | 160 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #1,110 | 174 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | #1,164 | 164 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #1,132 | 168 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #1,229 | 148 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | #1,291 | 134 |
| 2012 | #5,398 | 25 | #1,359 | 124 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #1,212 | 144 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #1,267 | 137 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 | #1,257 | 140 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 | #1,165 | 155 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 | #1,263 | 139 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 | #1,239 | 135 |
| 2005 | #3,730 | 39 | #1,201 | 132 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | #1,132 | 139 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 | #1,197 | 123 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #1,147 | 124 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | #1,118 | 126 |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 | #1,353 | 94 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #1,283 | 95 |
| 1998 | #3,730 | 31 | #1,301 | 91 |
| 1997 | #4,239 | 25 | #1,154 | 106 |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 | #1,149 | 103 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 | #1,359 | 75 |
| 1994 | #3,234 | 35 | #1,231 | 88 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | #1,228 | 85 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | #1,228 | 84 |
| 1991 | #3,817 | 27 | #1,227 | 82 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | #1,318 | 71 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | #1,243 | 75 |
| 1988 | #3,393 | 28 | #1,270 | 65 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | #1,587 | 44 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 | #1,457 | 47 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | #1,452 | 46 |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 | #1,458 | 43 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | #1,347 | 48 |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 | #1,815 | 31 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 | #2,138 | 24 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | #2,213 | 23 |
| 1979 | #3,668 | 21 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | #3,098 | 25 | #1,718 | 31 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 | #2,361 | 19 |
| 1976 | #2,728 | 28 | #1,711 | 30 |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 | #2,205 | 20 |
| 1974 | #2,922 | 24 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #3,635 | 17 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | #3,373 | 19 | #2,464 | 15 |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 | #2,399 | 15 |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #2,969 | 19 | #2,445 | 12 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 | #2,465 | 11 |
| 1965 | #3,050 | 17 | #2,476 | 11 |
| 1964 | #2,825 | 20 | #2,546 | 11 |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | #3,592 | 13 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | #4,184 | 10 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 | #3,619 | 6 |
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| 1957 | #3,309 | 13 | #2,631 | 10 |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
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| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sami! It came in at #3,886, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1956, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sami is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#607 · 1 in 4,943
- New York#690 · 1 in 5,215
- Ohio#805 · 1 in 6,640
- Virginia#846 · 1 in 6,970
- New Jersey#955 · 1 in 8,294
Best ever in a state: #452 in Massachusetts, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #607 | 6 | 1 in 4,943 |
| New York | #690 | 20 | 1 in 5,215 |
| Ohio | #805 | 9 | 1 in 6,640 |
| Virginia | #846 | 6 | 1 in 6,970 |
| New Jersey | #955 | 5 | 1 in 8,294 |
| Michigan | #1,021 | 5 | 1 in 9,528 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,172 | 5 | 1 in 12,046 |
| California | #1,355 | 13 | 1 in 17,730 |
| Texas | #1,562 | 9 | 1 in 19,738 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sami
- 150 spots since 2024 (#1,262 → #1,112)
- 201 spots since 2020 (#1,313 → #1,112)
- 20 spots since 2015 (#1,132 → #1,112)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2017 at #1,110 (174 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,850 boys born in 2025 were named Sami (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,110 in 2017, was only 1 in 10,638 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.8% of all boys named Sami (1,475) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1977, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 21 | #2,631 (1957) | #3,379 |
| 1960s | 88 | #2,139 (1967) | #2,849 |
| 1970s | 193 | #1,711 (1976) | #2,313 |
| 1980s | 446 | #1,243 (1989) | #1,598 |
| 1990s | 880 | #1,149 (1996) | #1,248 |
| 2000s | 1,307 | #1,118 (2001) | #1,207 |
| 2010s | 1,475 | #1,110 (2017) | #1,238 |
| 2020s | 893 | #1,112 (2025) | #1,301 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sami in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 70,442 of them was named Sami, which outranked 72.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,253Zakia26
- #5,253Zanyah26
- #5,253Ziyonna26
- #5,398Sami25
- #5,398Adaliz25
- #5,398Adelise25
- #5,398Adhya25
- #5,557Aarushi24
- #5,557Adali24
- #5,557Adanna24
Tied with 158 names at #5,398; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 15,298 of them was named Sami, which outranked 90.5% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,355Jaxx125
- #1,355Stephon125
- #1,355Viktor125
- #1,359Sami124
- #1,359Atreyu124
- #1,359Denis124
- #1,359Elyjah124
- #1,367Athan123
- #1,367Carsten123
- #1,367Castiel123
Tied with 7 names at #1,359; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.