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Sami Sami — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAH-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Good fortune (Quechua + Sami Yusuf British-Sufi musician)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Quechua)

A name that means "good fortune (quechua + sami yusuf british-sufi musician)".

Sami is from the Quechua sami — good fortune, blessing + dual-origin from Arabic سَامِي (Sāmī — elevated, noble) + Hebrew שמואל (Shemu'el short form Sam) + Sami Indigenous Northern European Sápmi people. Sami is one of the Quechua feminine + unisex names Arabic + Sami Indigenous unisex name.

Good fortune (Quechua-Arabic-Sami).

The name in its native script.

Sami / سَامِي
Transliteration
Sami / Sāmī
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑː.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sami stands.

Sami does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Samis before her.

Real people
Sami Yusuf
British-Azerbaijani Sufi musician.
born 1980
In fiction
Sami
Quechua good fortune.

Names connected to Sami.

The number behind Sami.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sami reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.