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Boy's name · #1114 in the US (2025) · Trending
Sami is climbing: on the charts since 1955, it is ranked #1114 in 2025, with about 190 boys given the name last year. Roughly 5,300 have carried it all-time.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 12 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#146 in Sweden (2025) · #183 in Netherlands (2025) · #244 in Belgium (2025) · #266 in France (2025) · #271 in England & Wales (2025) · #295 in Switzerland (2025) · #354 in Austria (2025) · #481 in Scotland (2025) · #569 in Poland (2025) · #1,027 in Ireland (2025) · #324 in Canada (2024).
Among 898 notable people named Sami:
Sports figures appear 1.48× more often than among typical names — e.g. Sami Khedira, German association football player.
Together with its spelling variant Sammy (#1864), Sami would rank around #863 with about 280 births last year — the newborns split about 69/31 between Sami and Sammy.
Similar names: Zamir · Rami · Saif · Remi · Syed · Zayd
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