How rare is the name Sammie?

10,686 people in the United States have the first name Sammie, about 1 in 28,264. It ranks #2,356 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SAMMIE

#2,356

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,686
About
1 in 28,264
This common or more
79.5%
Who bears it

Of the 10,686 people named Sammie, 47.5% reported their origin as Black, 41.7% as White and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 62.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Sammie peaked in 1947, when 636 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1947
Births that year
636
In 2025*
48 ▼92%
Recorded as
mostly male

At least 28,669 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Sammie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #537. The largest share of babies named Sammie, 30.8%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#1,157118
1890s#957246
1900s#740514
1910s#7192,019
1920s#6194,025
1930s#5374,648
1940s#5565,637
1950s#7814,220
1960s#1,0942,564
1970s#1,5441,486
1980s#2,1501,029
1990s#3,444687
2000s#4,968562
2010s#4,938605
2020s#5,522309
Before 19011.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–2719.6%
Silent Generation 1928–4530.8%
Baby boom 1946–6428.2%
Generation X 1965–809.2%
Millennials 1981–965%
Generation Z 1997–123.3%
2013 and later2.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Sammie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Sammie has been most common in Mississippi (13×), South Carolina (7.7×), and Arkansas (5.3×), and least common in New York (0.04×).

21,898 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Sammie

#2,352 Miley · 10,711#2,355 Rufus · 10,707#2,357 Adonis · 10,674#2,358 Cornelia · 10,664

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sammie, most common first.

#7,091 Sammi · 2,184#20,273 Samie · 511#20,952 Sammye · 489

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