사미
given name · Hangul script
Meaning: novice Buddhist monk (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
사미 is a female given name written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 90th most common given name. 사미 is also written Sammy in Latin and แซมม in Thai.
- FIFinland1 in 202as Sami(measured from records)
- KEKenya≈1 in 950as Sammy
- ALAlbania1 in 1.3Kas Sami
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than 사미 itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 466 (measured from records)
- 1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)
≈59,000 named Sammy, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland, as Sami
measured from records inferred from the name graph
사미 in other scripts: Latin and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sammy in US United States, KE Kenya, PH Philippines and 4 more and Sami in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)novice Buddhist monk
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)사미 counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #153 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 952 | — | Sammy | 86 |
| PH Philippines | #801 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Sammy | 80 |
| FI Finland | — | 27,625as Sami | 1 in 202 | 30K | Sami | 17 |
| US United States | #779 | 26,625as Sammy | 1 in 12K | 24K | Sammy | 466 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sammy | 52 |
| GH Ghana | #90 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Sammy | 39 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4,579as Sami | 1 in 2.2K | 4.6K | Sammy | 43 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,329as Sami | 1 in 1.3K | 2.3K | Sammy | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name 사미 mean, and where does it come from?
- novice Buddhist monk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is 사미 a male or female name?
- 사미 is a female 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.
- Which countries have the most people named 사미?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Sammy in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Philippines, Finland, United States and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is 사미 most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling 사미 itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 202 people named Sami.
- How common is the name 사미?
- In Finland, the national register counted 27,625 people named Sami, about 1 in 202 residents.
- How common is 사미 compared with other names?
- In Kenya, 사미 is the 153rd most common given name of 56,552 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%EC%82%AC%EB%AF%B8The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “사미” — the 153rd most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.