Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sami” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sami” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sami” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sami” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sami” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sami” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sami” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sami” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1945 5 0.000001885 5 100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1957 23 0.000005473 13 10 13%
1959 18 0.000004329 12 6 33%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 100%
1961 14 0.00000338 8 6 14%
1962 23 0.0000057 13 10 13%
1963 20 0.000005053 13 7 30%
1964 31 0.000007974 20 11 29%
1965 28 0.000007723 17 11 21%
1966 31 0.000008919 20 11 29%
1967 30 0.000008837 16 14 7%
1968 31 0.000009176 19 12 23%
1969 23 0.000006618 16 7 39%
1970 34 0.000009427 19 15 12%
1971 34 0.000009906 19 15 12%
1972 31 0.000009863 19 12 23%
1973 29 0.000009613 17 12 17%
1974 41 0.000013487 24 17 17%
1975 38 0.000012585 18 20 -5%
1976 58 0.000019115 28 30 -3%
1977 38 0.000011963 19 19 0%
1978 56 0.000017644 25 31 -11%
1979 43 0.000012925 21 22 -2%
1980 34 0.000009871 11 23 -35%
1981 39 0.000011274 15 24 -23%
1982 53 0.000015108 22 31 -17%
1983 66 0.000019057 18 48 -45%
1984 60 0.000017198 17 43 -43%
1985 61 0.000017091 15 46 -51%
1986 62 0.00001743 15 47 -52%
1987 79 0.00002191 35 44 -11%
1988 93 0.000025169 28 65 -40%
1989 93 0.000024191 18 75 -61%
1990 89 0.000022518 18 71 -60%
1991 109 0.000027983 27 82 -50%
1992 98 0.000025512 14 84 -71%
1993 101 0.000026788 16 85 -68%
1994 123 0.000033085 35 88 -43%
1995 97 0.000026487 22 75 -55%
1996 128 0.000035095 25 103 -61%
1997 131 0.00003613 25 106 -62%
1998 122 0.000033168 31 91 -49%
1999 105 0.000028425 10 95 -81%
2000 114 0.000030159 20 94 -65%
2001 144 0.000038468 18 126 -75%
2002 140 0.00003745 16 124 -77%
2003 146 0.000038398 23 123 -68%
2004 162 0.000042398 23 139 -72%
2005 171 0.000044475 39 132 -54%
2006 157 0.000039685 22 135 -72%
2007 165 0.000041274 26 139 -68%
2008 177 0.000045031 22 155 -75%
2009 164 0.00004293 24 140 -71%
2010 163 0.000044105 26 137 -68%
2011 158 0.000043195 14 144 -82%
2012 149 0.00004074 25 124 -66%
2013 155 0.000042516 21 134 -73%
2014 169 0.000045597 21 148 -75%
2015 184 0.000049717 16 168 -83%
2016 187 0.000050972 23 164 -75%
2017 190 0.000053129 16 174 -83%
2018 186 0.000052903 26 160 -72%
2019 139 0.000040047 17 122 -76%
2020 165 0.000049393 28 137 -66%
2021 153 0.00004516 16 137 -79%
2022 155 0.000045815 32 123 -59%
2023 174 0.000052549 27 147 -69%
2024 177 0.000053177 21 156 -76%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Sami:

  1. Sameya
  2. Sameyah
  3. Samhita
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  5. Samhitha
  6. Sami (this page)
  7. Samia
  8. Samiah
  9. Samiaya
  10. Samica
  11. Samid