Sämah

given name · Latin script

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

Sämah is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: generosity, bounty, good-heartedness, large-heartedness.

  • SESweden1 in 27K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 53K
  • ISIceland1 in 117K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,413 people, 2020

Record sources
29 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Samah in US United States, ES Spain.

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)

generosity, bounty, good-heartedness, large-heartedness

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Sämah 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 Sämah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,4131 in 235K1.4KSamah29
SE Sweden3851 in 27K385—1
ES Spain2691 in 186K269Samah13
DK Denmark1111 in 53K111——
NL Netherlands411 in 421K41—2
IS Iceland31 in 117K3——

1,413 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sämah under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sämah mean, and where does it come from?
generosity, bounty, good-heartedness, large-heartedness Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names and Nordic Names.
Is Sämah a male or female name?
Sämah is a female 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.
In which country does Sämah have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Sämah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samah.
Where is Sämah most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sämah is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sämah?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,413 people named Sämah in 2020, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A4mah

The 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, “Sämah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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