In 2025, 32 US girls were named Sammie, making it the 4,443rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 15 places from #4,458 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 32 girls named Sammie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #549, reached in 1936. The most girls given the name in a single year was 186, in 1943. For comparison, it was #4,215 in 2015 and #898 in 1950.
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Sammie, making it the 5,806th most common boys’ name of the year, down 778 places from #5,028 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 20 boys named Sammie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #285, reached in 1944. The most boys given the name in a single year was 492, in 1947. For comparison, it was #4,055 in 2015 and #338 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sammie in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 12 babies. In all, 28,669 US babies have been given the name, 27% of them girls and 73% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 5,637 babies named Sammie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 338 US girls were named Sammie; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sammy (45,140 babies since 1880), Sami (6,727 babies since 1880) and Samia (3,580 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Samyia, Saamia and Sameia are summarised on this page.