Sãmmy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sãmmy is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 90th most common given name.
- KEKenya≈1 in 950(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.6K
- GHGhana≈1 in 4.4K
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 Sãmmy 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 952 (inferred from the name graph)
≈59,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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)Sammy är en ursprungligen engelsk smekform till → Samuel.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Wiktionary
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sãmmy 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 | 26,625 | 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
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sãmmy a male or female name?
- Sãmmy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sãmmy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Sãmmy in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sammy.
- How common is the name Sãmmy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 26,625 people named Sãmmy in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Sãmmy compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Sãmmy is the 153rd most common given name of 56,552 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A3mmyThe 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, “Sãmmy” — the 153rd most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.