Samori — #11265 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Samori

The Social Security Administration has registered 66 babies named Samori between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Samori currently holds the #11265 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Samori is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2023.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Samori performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 19 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Samori shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Samori in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Samori 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 66 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.