Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Sammie was most popular in 1947, when 636 American babies were given the name — ranking #568 that year. In 2025 it ranked #5,745, with 48 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 28,669 people named Sammie.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Sammie is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 145 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 28,669 American births named Sammie between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 13,299 are estimated to be alive today.
48 American babies were named Sammie in 2025, ranking #5,745 that year.
Sammie is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 50 births a year, against 62 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -20% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Sammie is a unisex name — 27.3% of the 28,669 Americans given it were girls and 72.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 2014 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 63% girls and 37% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 13,299 Americans named Sammie are alive today — 46% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 67 years old, and half are between 49 and 78.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org