Sami

Where Sami comes from

Derived from Arabic سَامِي (sāmī), from the informal pronunciation of سَامٍ (sāmin, “high, exalted”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sami
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1955
    First appearance
    #3,886 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2017
    Peak, #1,110
    174 babies named Sami — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, feminine equivalent Samiyah.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Samantha.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.