Samalí
given name · Latin script
Samalí is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 375Kas Somali
- USUnited States1 in 1.1Mas Somaly
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 Samalí 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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Somali in US United States, ID Indonesia, VN Vietnam and 1 more and Samali in LK Sri Lanka.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Samalí 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Samali | 16 |
| US United States | 296as Somaly | 1 in 1.1M | 293 | Somali | 32 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Somali | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Somali | 47 |
| VN Vietnam | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Somali | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 6 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 2as Somali | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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
- Is Samalí a male or female name?
- Samalí 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 Samalí have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Samalí in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samali.
- How common is the name Samalí?
- In the United States, the national register counted 296 people named Somaly in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Samalí?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/samal%C3%ADThe 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, “Samalí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.