Neutral
Sami
Sami means "Also Arabic, elevated" and comes from Arabic, giving it real etymological depth as a gender-neutral name. It shows no signs of slowing down, reaching new highs in the 2000s. In the current registry, it is a real rarity. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 8 of them.
EtymologyShort for Samuel/Samir
ArabicAlso Arabic – "elevated"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
15
1950s
63
1960s
242
1970s
400
1980s
639
1990s
1,100
2000s
1,538
2010s
1,350
Peaked in the 2000s · 5,347 total U.S. births since 1900