Şamï
surname · Latin script
Şamï is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Tunisia it is the 9th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Derived from Arabic سَامٍ (sāmin, “high, elevated”).
- FIFinland1 in 202(measured from records)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 346
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 700
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Şamï itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- 1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)
121,443 named Sam, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sami in TR Türkiye, US United States, FI Finland and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Derived from Arabic سَامٍ (sāmin, “high, elevated”).
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şamï counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 121,443as Sam | 1 in 2.7K | 112K | Sami | 348 |
| DZ Algeria | #38 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 700 | — | Sami | 74 |
| TR Türkiye | #198 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Sami | 106 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #52 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 765 | — | Sami | 160 |
| TN Tunisia | #9 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 346 | 2.6K | Sami | 106 |
| FI Finland | #218 | 27,625 | 1 in 202 | 30K | Sami | 46 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 265 | 5.2K | — | 7 |
121,443 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling sam. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Şamï mean, and where does it come from?
- Derived from Arabic سَامٍ (sāmin, “high, elevated”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Şamï have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 121 thousand people named Sam, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Şamï most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Şamï is densest in Finland — about 1 in 202 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Şamï?
- In Finland, the national register counted 27,625 people named Şamï, about 1 in 202 residents.
- How common is Şamï compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Şamï is the 9th most common given name of 13,277 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9Fam%C3%AFThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Şamï” — the 9th most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.