Sami
Sami is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 156 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1560.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2017174 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1955
- 6,508people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,111 boys have been named Sami in the United States since 1955, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 174 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2010s alone account for 29%.
Sami is used for both sexes: 21% of its bearers are girls (1,397), most of them born around 2005.
By decade
In 2017, its biggest year
Sami was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Sami
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Menachempeak 2014
- Abimaelpeak 2017
- Husseinpeak 2015
- Bilalpeak 2018
- Ahmedpeak 2015
- Kekoapeak 2017
- Alonsopeak 2010
- Alipeak 2022
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.