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Samella vs Sammie

American parents have registered 28,669 Sammies since 1880, against 716 Samellas. Sammie is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Samella against Sammie, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Samella Sammie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Sammie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1898, when Samella had 5 and Sammie had 31.

Side by side

  Samella Sammie
Total US births 71628,669
Most in one year 25636
Babies in 2025 under 548
Estimated living today 31013,000
Median age today 7265
Peak year 19181947
Best rank 1,600th girls311th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,608th
First recorded 18981880
Girls / boys 716 / 07,833 / 20,836

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Samellas alive today are over 72; half the Sammies are over 65. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Samella and Sammie.