Sammy

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Sammie in FI Finland, TN Tunisia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sammy is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name75K records spelled Sammy14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Sämmy, S'Ammy, Sámmy, Sàmmy, Šặmmy

• a separate given name11K records spelled Sammy2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Sámmy

• Polish given name2.2K records spelled Sammy20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Sammie, Sammi, Сэмми, Semmy, Semmi

• Finnish given name1.3K records spelled Sammy3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Šammy

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Sammy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Sammy är en ursprungligen engelsk smekform till → Samuel.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 127 years between 1896–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Sammy Baughb. 1914USAmerican football player, coach (1914-2008)
• Samuel Baxter McIlroyb. 1954GBnot in their usual nameNorthern Irish association football manager and former player
• Sammy Leeb. 1959GBEnglish association football player
• El bambino del caribeb. 1968DOnot in their usual nameDominican baseball player (born 1968)
• Sammy Leungb. 1973CNHong Kong singer
• Sammy Traoréb. 1976FRMalian footballer
• Sammy Sheikb. 1981EGEgyptian actor
• Sammy Bossutb. 1985BEBelgian association football player
• Sammy Ameobib. 1992GBEnglish-Nigerian footballer (born 1992)
• Sam Feldtb. 1993NLnot in their usual nameDutch DJ, record producer and entrepreneur

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 709 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sammy?

We estimate roughly 85 thousand people bear Sammy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Sammy have the most bearers?

Sammy is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled sammy.

Where is Sammy most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sammy is densest in Finland — about 1 in 202 people — even though Kenya holds more of our records for it.

How common is Sammy compared with other names?

In Kenya, Sammy is the 154th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.

Is Sammy a male or female name?

Sammy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Sammy mean?

Recorded meaning: Synonym of Samoyed (breed of dog)