Meaning not yet researched.
Sami: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 193 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,113 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,113 in 2017; #1,114 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Sami in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,114 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,113.
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Sami: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 193 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,113 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 193 (2025).
In 2025, 193 US boys were named Sami, making it the 1,114th most common boys’ name of the year, up 155 places from #1,269 in 2024. That is 37 more than the 156 boys named Sami in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,113, reached in 2017. The most boys given the name in a single year was 193, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,133 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 27 US girls were named Sami, making it the 4,969th most common girls’ name of the year, up 960 places from #5,929 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 21 girls named Sami in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,784, reached in 1976. The most girls given the name in a single year was 39, in 2005. For comparison, it was #7,549 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sami in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 5 babies. In all, 6,727 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,680 babies named Sami.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,513 US boys were named Sami; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 193. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,850 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sami ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #471 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sammy (45,140 babies since 1880), Sammie (28,669 babies since 1880), Samiya (4,096 babies since 1880) and Samia (3,580 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Samiha, Zamia and Sayumi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Finnish and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Samiha (536), Zamia (357), Sayumi (54), Saiomi (37), Sayomi (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sami in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 17 | #471 | #492 |
| Michigan | 14 | #598 | #662 |
| Illinois | 15 | #625 | #703 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #684 | #697 |
| Ohio | 13 | #707 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #820 | #655 |
| New York | 14 | #944 | #998 |
| California | 22 | #1,008 | #1,152 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,115 | #1,017 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,129 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,287 | #1,628 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,401 | #1,137 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,433 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,969 | 193 | #1,114 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,929 | 156 | #1,269 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,976 | 147 | #1,308 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,453 | 123 | #1,476 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,205 | 137 | #1,356 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,735 | 137 | #1,319 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,968 | 122 | #1,440 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,126 | 160 | #1,192 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,380 | 174 | #1,113 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,768 | 164 | #1,165 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,549 | 168 | #1,133 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,174 | 148 | #1,235 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,214 | 134 | #1,294 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,533 | 124 | #1,366 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,550 | 144 | #1,218 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,384 | 137 | #1,277 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,857 | 140 | #1,264 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,317 | 155 | #1,167 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,499 | 139 | #1,269 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,093 | 135 | #1,247 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,794 | 132 | #1,208 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,518 | 139 | #1,139 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,379 | 123 | #1,203 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,981 | 124 | #1,152 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,260 | 126 | #1,122 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,658 | 94 | #1,359 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,346 | 95 | #1,291 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,812 | 91 | #1,316 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,348 | 106 | #1,160 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,287 | 103 | #1,153 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,649 | 75 | #1,367 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,290 | 88 | #1,241 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,887 | 85 | #1,237 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,581 | 84 | #1,235 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,915 | 82 | #1,233 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,235 | 71 | #1,325 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,010 | 75 | #1,255 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,458 | 65 | #1,283 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,836 | 44 | #1,607 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,138 | 47 | #1,471 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,033 | 46 | #1,477 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,452 | 43 | #1,478 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,244 | 48 | #1,358 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,735 | 31 | #1,848 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,908 | 24 | #2,193 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,232 | 23 | #2,274 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,752 | 22 | #2,298 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,173 | 31 | #1,749 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,883 | 19 | #2,442 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,784 | 30 | #1,741 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,738 | 20 | #2,272 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,986 | 17 | #2,441 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,759 | 12 | #2,990 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,374 | 12 | #2,960 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,474 | 15 | #2,535 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,408 | 15 | #2,492 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,588 | 7 | #3,876 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,035 | 12 | #2,551 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,306 | 14 | #2,233 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,826 | 11 | #2,600 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,133 | 11 | #2,596 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,892 | 11 | #2,636 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,767 | 6 | #3,978 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,741 | 10 | #2,820 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,223 | 6 | #4,000 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,405 | — | — |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,785 | 6 | #3,925 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,456 | 10 | #2,801 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,841 | — | — |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,311 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,474 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,563 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,896 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,988 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,137 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).