Šamal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Šamal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 8.3K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 29K
- HRCroatia1 in 94K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)
160,040 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Samal in IN India, US United States and Šámal in CZ Czechia.
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.
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Šamal 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.
160,040 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 74 | #21,619 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 45 | #14,352 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 38 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Šamal have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 160 thousand people named Šamal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samal.
- Where is Šamal most common?
- Šamal is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Šamal?
- In India, the national register counted 160,040 people named Šamal, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šamal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1amalThe 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, “Šamal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.