Sammy-Jo
Girl name · 17 babies recorded · 1974–2025
Sammy-Jo: 17 babies born in Scotland since 1974, given to girls, peaking at 7 births in 1992.
Sammy-Jo is a modern double-barrelled given name that merges the English diminutive Sammy—itself a pet form of Samuel (Hebrew, "God has heard") or Samantha (often taken as a feminine form of Samuel)—with the Scottish/English short form Jo, typically from Josephine or Joanna. Perhaps its most famous bearer is Scottish singer-songwriter Samatha "Sammy" Jo although the name gained wider visibility through Sammy Jo Dean, the character from the American TV series *The Beachcombers*. The name carries no direct place connections, though Jo is a familiar element in Scottish place-names like Joppa. The doubled-barrelled style is particularly popular in modern Scotland, where compound names such as Anna-Mae or Callum-John are given to over a hundred babies each year.
Girl 4 of 52 years
- Peak year
- 19927 babies
- Latest (2000)
- #6293 babies
- Total births
- 17since 1990
- 5-year trend
- ≈ stablevs prior 5y