Sammy
Sammy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 112 births. Its best rank was 170th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1120.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19471,210 births
- Best rank
- #170in 1946
- Since 1896
- 45,021people given the name
The story in the numbers
43,289 boys have been named Sammy in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 1,210 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1940s alone account for 22%. It has spent 100 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,732 girls have also been given it, 3.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Sammy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 78 | |
| 1910s | 480 | |
| 1920s | 1,842 | |
| 1930s | 4,173 | |
| 1940s | 9,360 | |
| 1950s | 8,104 | |
| 1960s | 6,603 | |
| 1970s | 3,888 | |
| 1980s | 2,621 | |
| 1990s | 2,235 | |
| 2000s | 2,044 | |
| 2010s | 1,309 | |
| 2020s | 547 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Sammy was the 175th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Sammy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tommypeak 1947
- Johnnypeak 1947
- Jimmypeak 1947
- Dennypeak 1947
- Jeraldpeak 1942
- Rogerpeak 1953
- Rodgerpeak 1949
- Kennithpeak 1956
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.