Sami

“High, exalted” — Arabic origin

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. 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.

Around the world: about 1 in 730 boys in Sweden (2025) · about 1 in 990 boys in Belgium (2025) · about 1 in 1,400 boys in Switzerland (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 12 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Samis

Sami Khedira — German association football player
Sami Hyypiä — Finnish footballer and manager (born 1973)
Sami Yusuf — British musician
Sami Al-Jaber — former Saudi Arabian footballer and manager
Sami Frashëri — Albanian writer, philosopher, playwright and activist (1850–1904)

What Samis become

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.

Similar names: Zamir · Rami · Saif · Remi · Umar · Zayd

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