Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sammy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sammy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sammy” 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 “Sammy” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sammy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sammy” 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
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 -100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 -100%
1904 13 0.000032219 13 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 -100%
1908 13 0.000026604 13 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1910 23 0.000038936 23 -100%
1911 20 0.000031043 20 -100%
1912 23 0.000023278 23 -100%
1913 26 0.000022865 6 20 -54%
1914 56 0.000039538 5 51 -82%
1915 57 0.000031106 7 50 -75%
1916 61 0.000031534 8 53 -74%
1917 88 0.000043852 16 72 -64%
1918 103 0.000047441 21 82 -59%
1919 102 0.000048336 16 86 -69%
1920 126 0.000055687 13 113 -79%
1921 126 0.000053973 11 115 -83%
1922 139 0.000060721 9 130 -87%
1923 159 0.000069056 12 147 -85%
1924 186 0.000078098 23 163 -75%
1925 170 0.000072858 13 157 -85%
1926 221 0.000096258 19 202 -83%
1927 254 0.000109513 19 235 -85%
1928 307 0.000135784 27 280 -82%
1929 319 0.000145519 19 300 -88%
1930 371 0.00016687 25 346 -87%
1931 372 0.000176773 27 345 -85%
1932 380 0.000179985 26 354 -86%
1933 367 0.000183551 18 349 -90%
1934 430 0.000207048 18 412 -92%
1935 460 0.000220106 24 436 -90%
1936 496 0.00023874 35 461 -86%
1937 489 0.000229505 18 471 -93%
1938 516 0.000233213 20 496 -92%
1939 524 0.00023781 21 503 -92%
1940 595 0.000258394 18 577 -94%
1941 675 0.000277045 23 652 -93%
1942 853 0.000312246 21 832 -95%
1943 934 0.000330905 35 899 -93%
1944 1001 0.000372108 28 973 -94%
1945 973 0.000366767 24 949 -95%
1946 1217 0.000380871 24 1193 -96%
1947 1239 0.000343945 29 1210 -95%
1948 1093 0.000316581 18 1075 -97%
1949 1026 0.000294424 26 1000 -95%
1950 903 0.000257753 17 886 -96%
1951 896 0.000243231 12 884 -97%
1952 799 0.000210374 18 781 -95%
1953 786 0.000203963 16 770 -96%
1954 784 0.00019695 15 769 -96%
1955 769 0.000191528 19 750 -95%
1956 749 0.000181662 10 739 -97%
1957 811 0.000192997 16 795 -96%
1958 880 0.000212874 7 873 -98%
1959 878 0.00021116 21 857 -95%
1960 881 0.000212094 15 866 -97%
1961 804 0.000194095 17 787 -96%
1962 763 0.000189078 11 752 -97%
1963 715 0.000180638 10 705 -97%
1964 747 0.000192149 12 735 -97%
1965 634 0.000174875 15 619 -95%
1966 583 0.000167738 13 570 -96%
1967 561 0.000165248 13 548 -95%
1968 524 0.000155102 11 513 -96%
1969 519 0.000149339 11 508 -96%
1970 482 0.000133647 8 474 -97%
1971 520 0.000151499 13 507 -95%
1972 468 0.000148903 8 460 -97%
1973 449 0.000148829 10 439 -96%
1974 403 0.000132566 9 394 -96%
1975 361 0.00011956 9 352 -95%
1976 350 0.000115348 7 343 -96%
1977 339 0.000106721 8 331 -95%
1978 307 0.000096727 10 297 -93%
1979 298 0.00008957 7 291 -95%
1980 348 0.00010103 5 343 -97%
1981 267 0.000077182 5 262 -96%
1982 284 0.000080959 14 270 -90%
1983 279 0.000080558 25 254 -82%
1984 235 0.000067359 18 217 -85%
1985 253 0.000070886 10 243 -92%
1986 279 0.000078435 17 262 -88%
1987 274 0.000075993 26 248 -81%
1988 248 0.000067117 14 234 -89%
1989 298 0.000077514 10 288 -93%
1990 299 0.000075649 5 294 -97%
1991 253 0.000064951 11 242 -91%
1992 278 0.000072372 8 270 -94%
1993 202 0.000053577 7 195 -93%
1994 230 0.000061867 10 220 -91%
1995 190 0.000051882 11 179 -88%
1996 196 0.00005374 13 183 -87%
1997 203 0.000055988 8 195 -92%
1998 261 0.000070958 13 248 -90%
1999 222 0.0000601 13 209 -88%
2000 231 0.000061113 13 218 -89%
2001 244 0.000065182 10 234 -92%
2002 212 0.00005671 12 200 -89%
2003 226 0.000059437 10 216 -91%
2004 230 0.000060195 13 217 -89%
2005 232 0.000060341 18 214 -84%
2006 207 0.000052323 9 198 -91%
2007 189 0.000047277 5 184 -95%
2008 218 0.000055461 13 205 -88%
2009 172 0.000045024 14 158 -84%
2010 167 0.000045187 13 154 -84%
2011 171 0.00004675 13 158 -85%
2012 133 0.000036365 13 120 -80%
2013 137 0.000037579 18 119 -74%
2014 164 0.000044248 21 143 -74%
2015 144 0.000038909 18 126 -75%
2016 150 0.000040886 21 129 -72%
2017 154 0.000043063 14 140 -82%
2018 134 0.000038113 17 117 -75%
2019 133 0.000038318 30 103 -55%
2020 119 0.000035623 15 104 -75%
2021 139 0.000041028 19 120 -73%
2022 137 0.000040495 23 114 -66%
2023 125 0.000037751 28 97 -55%
2024 131 0.000039357 19 112 -71%

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