Sampson

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Sampson is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 33 births. Its best rank was 415th, in 1898.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 330.00% of boys
Peak year: 201761 births
Best rank: #415in 1898
Since 1880: 3,866people given the name

Babies named Sampson, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

3,866 boys have been named Sampson in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 61 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 1969, and the 2010s alone account for 12%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Sampson
1880s	76
1890s	103
1900s	118
1910s	249
1920s	348
1930s	266
1940s	246
1950s	303
1960s	243
1970s	222
1980s	312
1990s	365
2000s	354
2010s	445
2020s	216

In 2017, its biggest year

Sampson 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 Sampson

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.