Sammy
Sammy is a boy's name that peaked in 1947, when it was the 175th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,852nd. About 29,000 Sammys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sammy boys named Sammy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 45,140
- Estimated living today
- 29,000
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 175th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,852nd
- First recorded
- 1896
- Girls / boys
- 1,758 / 43,382
How old the living Sammys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 45,140 babies given the name since 1896, about 29,000 are alive — 64 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 11,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Sammys
- Sammy Davis Jr. (1925–1990)American entertainer
- Sammy Bossut (born 1985)Belgian association football player
- Sammy Adjei (born 1980)Ghanaian footballer
- Sammy Ameobi (born 1992)English-Nigerian footballer
- Sammy Hagar (born 1947)American rock singer
- Sammy Lee (born 1959)English association football player
- Sammy McIlroy (born 1954)Northern Irish association football manager and former player
- Sammy Cahn (1913–1993)American lyricist, songwriter, musician
People named Sammy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sammy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sammy is most concentrated in New Mexico (4.8×), Arkansas (3.7×), Mississippi (3.6×), Tennessee (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular boys’ names the year Sammy peaked:
Sammy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Sammy | 1,485 | 407th |
| England and Wales boys | Sammy | 839 | 682nd |
| Belgium boys | Sammy | 296 | 318th |
| England and Wales girls | Sammy | 138 | 1,543rd |
| Ireland boys | Sammy | 58 | 430th |
| Scotland girls | Sammy | 34 | 422nd |
| Scotland boys | Sammy | 33 | 533rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Sammy | 11 | 326th |
| Ireland girls | Sammy | 3 | 502nd |
| Poland boys | Sammy | 3 birth registrations | 588th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sammy: rank by region
In 2021, Sammy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Sammy | 779 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Sammy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Sammy | 133 | 150 |
| Finland girls | Sammy | 5 | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Sammy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.