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Sam Name Popularity

How popular is the name Sam? Here’s everything we know.

Year Rank # Births % Births
1910 — 847 0.2406%
1911 — 895 0.2403%
1912 — 1,295 0.2568%
1913 — 1,511 0.2665%
1914 — 1,856 0.2663%
1915 — 2,311 0.2544%
1916 — 2,301 0.2382%
1917 — 2,442 0.2441%
1918 — 2,489 0.2319%
1919 — 2,362 0.2256%
1920 — 2,262 0.2034%
1921 — 2,340 0.2044%
1922 — 2,339 0.2099%
1923 — 2,182 0.1948%
1924 — 2,105 0.1813%
1925 — 2,070 0.1831%
1926 — 2,010 0.1827%
1927 — 1,887 0.1705%
1928 — 1,748 0.1634%
1929 — 1,703 0.1644%
1930 — 1,649 0.1579%
1931 — 1,437 0.1456%
1932 — 1,435 0.1452%
1933 — 1,335 0.1433%
1934 — 1,295 0.134%
1935 — 1,347 0.1386%
1936 — 1,210 0.1256%
1937 — 1,179 0.1196%
1938 — 1,135 0.1109%
1939 — 1,095 0.1076%
1940 — 1,122 0.1056%
1941 — 1,171 0.104%
1942 — 1,266 0.1003%
1943 — 1,290 0.0988%
1944 — 1,186 0.0957%
1945 — 1,117 0.0916%
1946 — 1,283 0.0869%
1947 — 1,398 0.0838%
1948 — 1,213 0.076%
1949 — 1,074 0.0668%
1950 — 930 0.0578%
1951 — 996 0.0587%
1952 — 906 0.0519%
1953 — 843 0.0476%
1954 — 847 0.0463%
1955 — 834 0.0453%
1956 — 933 0.0494%
1957 — 1,051 0.0546%
1958 — 1,157 0.0612%
1959 — 1,275 0.0671%
1960 — 1,197 0.0632%
1961 — 1,175 0.0622%
1962 — 1,040 0.0566%
1963 — 988 0.055%
1964 — 942 0.0535%
1965 — 747 0.0457%
1966 — 643 0.0412%
1967 — 576 0.038%
1968 — 536 0.0357%
1969 — 547 0.0355%
1970 — 550 0.0346%
1971 — 490 0.0326%
1972 — 458 0.0336%
1973 — 433 0.0334%
1974 — 407 0.0313%
1975 — 358 0.0279%
1976 — 354 0.0275%
1977 — 304 0.0226%
1978 — 374 0.0278%
1979 — 308 0.0218%
1980 — 318 0.0217%
1981 — 331 0.0225%
1982 — 313 0.0209%
1983 — 308 0.0209%
1984 — 299 0.0201%
1985 — 289 0.019%
1986 — 329 0.0218%
1987 — 433 0.0284%
1988 — 443 0.0284%
1989 — 450 0.0279%
1990 — 547 0.033%
1991 — 538 0.033%
1992 — 532 0.0333%
1993 — 524 0.0336%
1994 — 505 0.0329%
1995 — 525 0.0348%
1996 — 491 0.0328%
1997 — 439 0.0297%
1998 — 450 0.0301%
1999 — 450 0.03%
2000 — 480 0.0314%
2001 — 525 0.0348%
2002 — 515 0.0344%
2003 — 536 0.0352%
2004 — 554 0.0363%
2005 — 527 0.0345%
2006 — 544 0.0347%
2007 — 576 0.0365%
2008 — 559 0.0362%
2009 — 542 0.0363%
2010 — 509 0.0353%
2011 — 515 0.0361%
2012 — 454 0.0319%
2013 — 436 0.0306%
2014 — 479 0.0329%
2015 — 483 0.0332%
2016 — 411 0.0285%
2017 — 470 0.0337%
2018 — 416 0.0303%
2019 — 384 0.0284%
2020 — 335 0.0263%
2021 — 375 0.0307%
2022 — 374 0.0283%
2023 — 364 0.0281%

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Data via SSA.gov.


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What names are variants of Sam?

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Name Meaning Origin Popularity Other Gender
Samm
Sammey
Sammie

God heard

Hebrew

Samy

What names sound like Sam?

If you like how Sam sounds, you might also like these names that sound like Sam.

Name Meaning Origin Popularity Other Gender
Sami

On high, exalted

Arabic

Sim

Son of Simon; to hear, to be heard; reputation

Hebrew


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6 Comments

  1. My 1st son randomly said one day he wants to name his brother sam, so why not let’s name him Sam. We love to call him with that name.

  2. I love the name because it fits his sweet demeanor

  3. Love

  4. I ben happy and love

  5. I named my first after my husband to honor and bless him. His family had done that and I wanted to establish tradition from the start. How cool would it be to have a third and fourth generation?! Also Sam is a common enough name that isn’t hard to pronounce or spell so even though it’s not unique, it’s not complicated. My name is misspelled and mispronounced all the time and it gets old.

  6. Just like the name


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