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Baby name
Sammy
Boy
Origin of the name
Sammy is a pet form of Samuel or Samantha; it is also a form of the Arabic Sami, “high, exalted.”
Classic name
43,382births since 1880
1940sgeneration
No. 175rank at its peak, in 1947
Where babies named Sammy are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Sammy is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Sammy is most common in New Mexico (4.7 times), Arkansas (3.7) and Mississippi (3.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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- Tammy 1,392
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