Sampson is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Sampson is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Sampson. In the SmartGenius ranking, Sampson is #2,337 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sampson.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Sampson annualy. This means that there have been boys named Sampson who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Sampson have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Sampson even more than any other time: in 1898, it holds its present record at rank #382 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sampson was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Sampson has never been ranked higher than #382. In 2022, he rivaled the 2,648 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 41 boys named Sampson were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Sampson were born, there have been 33 newborns who received this name.
The odds of having a man or boy named Sampson in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Sampson is registered in 18 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado or Florida. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Sampson live in South Carolina, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 33,582 men and boys in South Carolina for their name before you meet one who answers with Sampson.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Sampson has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Sampson and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sampson, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Mouse
Pig
Sun
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sampson
Sampson
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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M
P
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O
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sampson sounds like this:
