Sami — #1261 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sami

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,111 babies named Sami between 1955 and 2024, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sami currently holds the #1261 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 174 babies received it in a single year. Sami is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,397 additional births since 1945.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sami performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,475 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Sami shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 669 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Sami in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sami in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,111 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.