Sammi
Sammi was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,279 among girls’ names; 1,732 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,680 Americans named Sammi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sammi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sammi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sammi is “a female given name, diminutive of Samantha.”
Respelling of Sammy.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sammi?
#6,279 among girls’ names, 2025
Sammi fell from #4,833 in 2015 to #6,279 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 11.8 per million.
51 babies in 2002, the peak
Sammi peaked in 2002, when 51 babies were given it (43 girls, #3,273 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,279 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,600 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,983 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,437 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,960 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,503 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,524 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,866 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,157 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,262 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,833 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,637 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,119 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,585 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,053 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,290 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,351 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,524 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,455 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,665 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,181 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,883 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,287 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,273 | 23.9 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,688 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,960 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,700 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,916 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,219 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,803 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,560 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,977 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,771 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,847 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,609 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,602 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,094 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,206 | 17.4 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,147 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,032 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,221 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,397 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,640 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,998 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,183 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,582 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,008 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,609 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,703 | 20.2 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,784 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,601 | 20.6 |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,795 | 34.1 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,853 | 31.5 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,126 | 24.3 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,134 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,243 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,978 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,939 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,049 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,512 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,695 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,486 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,483 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,801 | 4.6 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,590 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,983 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,285 | 3.4 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,965 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,575 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sammi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,732 Americans recorded as Sammi, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sammi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sammi, and how old are they?
1,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,732 Americans ever recorded as Sammi. The median Sammi alive today is 29 years old; half are between 17 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 2,184 people named Sammi (1,983 women and girls, 201 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,590 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 58 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 411 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 306 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sammi born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,452 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sammi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,219 babies since 1880, Sammi is the fourth most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 326 babies (5.8%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sammi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sammi and names like it
- Compare Sammi and SamiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSammi peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sammi since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Sammi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sammi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.