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Sammi

#6,279 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly universal, adjacent, through Samantha

Sammi has been given to 1,732 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #6,279 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Sammi, 2025

1 in 174,000

Sammi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sammi: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly universal, adjacent, through Samantha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sammi means

Sammi belongs to the name family reached through Sammi → Samantha. Its meaning is “universal, adjacent”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sammi is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Samantha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,676 girls were recorded with the name Sammi between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,795 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,503 in 2020 to #6,279 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,833 in 2015 to #6,279 in 2025.

In the United States, 56 boys were recorded with the name Sammi between 1994 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2000; its best national rank was #8,063 in 2000.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sammi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,279
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sammi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sammi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sammis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sammi was born before 1996 — so the typical Sammi is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,671
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (326).

Is Sammi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+321
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,224
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,446
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.66×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.0%
Peak was 1974 (50)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,795
1974

Spellings of Sammi

Sammi is not the most common spelling — Tammy is, with 43.0% against Sammi's 0.22%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sammi is used

Across 1910–2025, Sammi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 175,083 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in —
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sammi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sammi around the world

Where Sammi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • Scotland
    1992–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1995–2012
    #2,855
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1996–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sammi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,279
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,224
Best rank ever
#1,795
1974
Peak year
1974
50 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,676
Count in 2025
19

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,063
2000
Peak year
2000
8 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sammi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sammi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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