Şamo

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Şamo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.

  • SISlovenia1 in 832(measured from records)
  • AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 19Kfew records
  • FIFinland1 in 328K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Slovenia (measured from records)

2,528 people, 2025

Record sources
15 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 832 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Samo in SI Slovenia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Şamo 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.

Where Şamo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia2,5281 in 8322.5KSamo5
AZ Azerbaijan≈530 est.≈1 in 19K5Şamo8
TR Türkiye≈42 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Şamo15
FI Finland171 in 328K48——
NL Netherlands91 in 1.9M9—1
DK Denmark61 in 978K6——

2,528 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025. 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: SURS — resident population given names; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Şamo is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Samo, Šamo, Само

  • English given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Philippines, Syria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Samo, Sam-O, Samoe, Sâmö, Sãmö

  • Persian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Samo

  • Hindi given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Armenia, Pakistan, Russia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Armenian

    Also written Samo, Սամո, সামো, Šamo, Sàmo

  • Slovenian given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Croatia, Syria, United States

    Languages: Slovenian, Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Samo, Šamo, Шамо, Sammo, Šãmǒ

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Samo, Samõ

  • Spanish given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Mexico, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Samo, Sam-O, Samó, Samö, Sãmõ

  • Kazakh name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Samo, Само

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Şamo a male or female name?
Şamo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Şamo?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Şamo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samo. After it come Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Finland and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Şamo most common?
Şamo is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 832 people carrying it.
How common is the name Şamo?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 2,528 people named Şamo in 2025, about 1 in 832 residents.

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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, “Şamo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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