How Many People Are Named Sammy?
people named Sammy are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 11,750 people in the US has this name
Based on 45,140 babies named Sammy in Social Security records from 1896 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,239 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 Sammy in English. Counting Sammy and these spellings together, about 42,174 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Sammy, 4.1% were girls and 95.9% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1910s: 14.1% of the babies were girls then and 16.8% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Sammy alive today is about 54 years old, and 50% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 38 and 72 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Sammy first appears in the records in 1896 and was given most often in 1947, to 1,239 babies. In 2025, 110 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1896 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Sammy has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #170, in 1946. In 2025 it ranked #1,864.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,864 |
| Best rank | #170 (1946) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #186 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Sammy alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sammy were born in Texas than in any other state: about 4,635 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sammy was given 4.5 times as often in New Mexico, 3.4 times in Arkansas and 3.1 times in Mississippi.
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