Sampson
Recorded for boysGen X2025 rank
#3,435
up +11 places
2025 births
34
unchanged births
All-time births
3,901
1% of them in 2025
More common than
95%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2017
- 61 births
- Best rank
- #415
- in 1898
- First recorded
- 1880
- #1,037 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1967
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 201761#2,213Peak
- 201557#2,323
- 202057#2,363
- 199951#1,926
- 201651#2,510
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #415 in 1898 · peak births 61 in 2017
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Sampson has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.