Sămă

given name · Latin script

Sămă is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname. Recorded meaning: * As a Catalan surname, from Samà in Catalonia * As an Italian surname, variant spelling of the surname Samà. * As a Hindi/Gujarati surname, from सम्मा (sammā), name of a tribe. See Samma.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 476as Sharma
  • INIndia1 in 662as Sharma

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 Sămă 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.

India (measured from records)

2,002,549 named Sharma

#65 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
466 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Egypt, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SharmaLatin(measured from records)
СимаCyrillic(measured from records)
ชาร์มาThai(measured from records)
সামBengali(measured from records)
სიმაGeorgian(measured from records)
శర్మTelugu(measured from records)
ΣιμαGreek(measured from records)
샤르마Hangul(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sharma in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 1 more, Saima in PK Pakistan, AE United Arab Emirates, Sama in EG Egypt and Seema in AU Australia.

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)

Derivation of Sămă: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sămă
  1. Samàin(measured from records)
  2. Samain(measured from records)
  3. Sama root狭い“narrow”(measured from records)

* As a Catalan surname, from Samà in Catalonia * As an Italian surname, variant spelling of the surname Samà. * As a Hindi/Gujarati surname, from सम्मा (sammā), name of a tribe. See Samma. * As an Asturian-Leonese surname, from Sama in Asturias. * As a Japanese surname, from 狭い (“narrow”), written phonetically as 佐満.

Sources 6

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sămă 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 Sămă is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#112,002,549as Sharma1 in 6622MSharma387
BD Bangladesh#139≈78,000 est.≈1 in 2.1KlistedSharma77
US United States—28,559as Sharma1 in 12K112KSharma466
AE United Arab Emirates—≈21,000 est.≈1 in 476—Saima70
PK Pakistan—≈13,000 est.≈1 in 18KlistedSaima99
MY Malaysia#697≈13,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Sharma72
AU Australia—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K103Seema109
EG Egypt—≈5,600 est.≈1 in 19KlistedSama85

2,002,549 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present). 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)

Sămă is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name85 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sama, Saema, Şama, Samà, Sama'

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sămă 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 Sămă mean, and where does it come from?
* As a Catalan surname, from Samà in Catalonia * As an Italian surname, variant spelling of the surname Samà. * As a Hindi/Gujarati surname, from सम्मा (sammā), name of a tribe. See Samma. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.
Is Sămă a male or female name?
Sămă 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 Sămă have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 2.0 million people named Sharma, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Sămă?
In India, the national register counted 2,002,549 people named Sharma, about 1 in 662 residents.
How common is Sămă compared with other names?
In India, Sămă is the 11th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Sămă” — the 11th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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