Sammy
#1,852 in the US in 2025
Sammy in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 27% as a share of boys' births.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Sammy in New Zealand
Sammy never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | #1,050 | 7 |
| 1910 | #598 | 23 |
| 1920 | #587 | 113 |
| 1930 | #305 | 346 |
| 1940 | #217 | 577 |
| 1950 | #214 | 886 |
| 1960 | #272 | 865 |
| 1970 | #373 | 474 |
| 1980 | #451 | 343 |
| 1990 | #586 | 294 |
| 2000 | #760 | 218 |
| 2010 | #1,175 | 154 |
| 2020 | #1,568 | 104 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Sammy most often since 1896. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| Texas | 6,886 |
| California | 3,426 |
| Georgia | 2,519 |
| Tennessee | 2,245 |
| North Carolina | 2,009 |
| Mississippi | 1,790 |
| New York | 1,765 |
| Alabama | 1,571 |
| Arkansas | 1,555 |
| South Carolina | 1,515 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026