girls:
7.8k births since 1880
#1844 (68th percentile)
boys:
20.8k births since 1880
#800 (83rd percentile)
overall:
28.6k births since 1880
#1505 (81st percentile)
The name Sammie is the #1,505 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 28,565 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 80.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #800 (82.6% percentile) for all time with 20,797 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,844 (67.7% percentile) for all time with 7,768 births since 1880.
Sammie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Sammie is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for girls and 141 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Sammie has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 45.5% of babies named Sammie were boys.
For boys, Sammie reached its peak popularity in 1944, achieving the 51.3% percentile (ranked #270) with 312 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 326 births per million (ranked 48.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sammie ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Sammie reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 27.6% percentile (ranked #454) with 130 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 133 births per million (ranked 23.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sammie ranks #928 for girls (2.0% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 10.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sammie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Sammie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Sammie is pronounced as SA-mee, which has 2 syllables.
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