Names / Unisex names
Sami
Current rank
#1,114
holding steady
All-time peak
#1,113
in 2017
First recorded
1945
in U.S. data
Children named
6,700
since 1945
Popularity over time
Annual U.S. children given the name · Peak #1,113 in 2017 · Source: Social Security Administration
Meaning & background
(SAH-mee): elevated, exalted. Also a name that travels well outside Arabic-speaking contexts. It enters U.S. records in American naming data in 1945. Its strongest year was 2017, at #1,113 nationally. It now sits outside the national top 1,000, which keeps it uncommon. More than 6,700 children have been given the name overall.