Samy
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
- Given to boys 98.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 17 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 895since 1975
Samy over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Samy has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #13,208 | 6 | #3,658 | 30 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #3,896 | 28 |
| 2023 | — | #3,883 | 28 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,184 | 25 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,628 | 21 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,451 | 16 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,496 | 32 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,094 | 25 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,193 | 36 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,524 | 31 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,058 | 18 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,263 | 23 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,864 | 26 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,003 | 25 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | — | #3,994 | 25 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,921 | 26 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,640 | 20 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,686 | 27 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,815 | 24 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,636 | 25 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,732 | 23 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,349 | 26 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,974 | 20 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,389 | 17 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,480 | 22 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,873 | 13 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,455 | 20 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,751 | 17 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,501 | 18 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,748 | 16 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,636 | 16 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,079 | 17 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,201 | 15 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,440 | 13 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
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First appearance
1975
The first year at least five boys were named Samy! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Samy is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Samy in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Samy
Momentum · boys
Rising
- 238 spots since 2024 (#3,896 → #3,658)
- 1,793 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #3,658)
- 1,400 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #3,658)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1988 at #3,079 (17 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 51,415
- Highest: 1 in 51,415 boys born in 2017 were named Samy (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,079 in 1988, was only 1 in 112,605 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 28.6% of all boys named Samy (256) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,464 (1975) | #5,464 |
| 1980s | 106 | #3,079 (1988) | #4,229 |
| 1990s | 150 | #3,455 (1997) | #4,432 |
| 2000s | 230 | #3,349 (2002) | #3,957 |
| 2010s | 256 | #3,193 (2017) | #4,116 |
| 2020s | 148 | #3,658 (2025) | #4,283 |
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.
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