Sampson — #3448 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sampson

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,866 babies named Sampson between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sampson currently holds the #3448 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 61 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sampson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 445 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Sampson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 117 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Sampson in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sampson 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 3,866 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.