Sammy

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sammy: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sammy: Recorded since 1994, it reached #326 in 2021, and it stood at #509 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
68times a registrar ranked it
32years from first to last
#326highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1543
1998	#2165
1999	#2189
2000	#2167
2001	#2226
2002	#2868
2003	#2727
2004	#1952
2005	#3382
2006	#2320
2007	#4294
2008	#2721
2009	#3422
2010	#3533
2011	#4764
2012	#5876
2013	#5742
2014	#4684
2017	#4763
2018	#5666
2021	#5581
2022	#4645

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #430 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1235 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1994–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1755 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2015–2021
Highest recorded position: #326 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2021 (recorded 2015–2021).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #509 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Sammy appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 811 births with the name.

Sammy across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sammy's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#573 (1996)	#533 (2001)	#1235 (2024)	29 of 29	811 (1996–2024)	44 (2009)
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#1543 (1997)	#4645 (2022)	23 of 27	135 (1996–2022)	11 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#629 (2007)	#430 (2024)	#509 (2025)	12 of 19	58 (2007–2025)	8 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#415 (2015)	#326 (2021)	#326 (2021)	3 of 7	11 (2015–2021)	5 (2021)

Sammy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sammy in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	108	4 of 10	27
2000sbusiest	335	10 of 10	34
2010s	269	10 of 10	27
2020s	99	5 of 10	20

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 34 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sammy appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1994 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #326 in Northern Ireland in 2021.

Sammy's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1235	22	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1224	22	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1516	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1150	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1001	28	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1324	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1546	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#994	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#996	29	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1144	23	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1147	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1119	24	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#781	39	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#744	40	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#682	44	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#728	40	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#782	34	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#698	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#638	41	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1952	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#875	24	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#813	25	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#600	33	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#533	36	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#817	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#596	30	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#716	23	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#629	26	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#573	29	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#326	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#421	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#430	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#516	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#552	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#541	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#554	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#550	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#529	5	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1994 and 2025, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #326, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 21 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Sampson · #1903, 23y
Samrat · #2445, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Diya · #326, 30y
Shelly · #326, 29y
Keir · #327, 29y
Ena · #328, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Diya · #326, 30y
Elio · #326, 25y
Ibraheem · #326, 29y
Awais · #327, 29y

Sammy was ranked #326 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sammy and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sammy without appearing here.

Sammy moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1533 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1235 and #5119.
Cheryl Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5666 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #4645 and #5669.
Debra Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #4645 and #5669.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #4645 and #5669.

Moved ahead of Sammy

Teddy Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2868 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2460.
Tove Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4763 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2674.
Kai Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4764 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #5876 and #3285.
Hayden Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3382 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #4294 and #1741.

Moved the opposite way to Sammy

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sammy went from #573 to #1235 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sammy went from #573 to #1235 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sammy went from #573 to #1235 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sammy went from #573 to #1235 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Sammy

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sammy went from #573 to #1235 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sammy went from #573 to #1235 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sammy went from #573 to #1235 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sammy went from #573 to #1235 and Alexander from #14 to #36.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1994 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #326 in Northern Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sammy

Sammy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sammy across 4 official records

Sammy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sammy appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Sammy and the names beside it

Sammy moved ahead of

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Sammy at a glance

Sammy across 4 official records

Sammy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sammy appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sammy

Sammy and the names beside it

Sammy moved ahead of

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