Sam
131
Babies in 2024
-68%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.64k
-8%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Sam
Sam peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (1,638 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 131 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Sam reached its peak in 1996, when 1,638 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #47 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 131 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 20,889 boys have been officially registered with the name Sam in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,529 boys were registered with the name, starting from 405 in 2014 and ending at 131 in 2024.