How Many People Are Named Sammie?
people named Sammie are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 26,114 people in the US has this name
Based on 28,669 babies named Sammie in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
636 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of SAMUEL, SAMSON or SAMANTHA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Sammie in English. Counting Sammie and these spellings together, about 42,174 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Sammie, 28.7% were girls and 71.3% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1880s: 57.6% of the babies were girls then and 64.7% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Sammie alive today is about 60 years old, and 61% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 47 and 77 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Sammie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1947, to 636 babies. In 2025, 48 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Sammie has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #285, in 1944. In 2025 it ranked #5,804. Among girls, its best rank was #549, in 1936.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #5,804 | #4,442 |
| Best rank | #285 (1944) | #549 (1936) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #309 in the 1940s | #640 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Sammie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sammie were born in Mississippi than in any other state: about 1,628 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sammie was given 9.9 times as often in Mississippi, 6.4 times in South Carolina and 4 times in Arkansas.
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