Samsón
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Samsón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Samson, from Literary Hokkien 三孫／三孙 (sam-sun).
- USUnited States1 in 30K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 73M
- BEBelgium1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
11,123 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Samson in PH Philippines, US United States, ES Spain and 1 more.
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)- SpanishSamson(measured from records)
- Literary Hokkien三孫／三孙sam-sun(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Samson, from Literary Hokkien 三孫／三孙 (sam-sun).
Cited for this meaning 12
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Russian Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Samsón 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 11,123 | 1 in 30K | 12K | Samson | 161 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,199 | 1 in 32K | 624 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 574 | 1 in 20K | 609 | — | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 386 | 1 in 130K | 386 | Samson | 40 |
| IN India | — | 368 | 1 in 3.6M | 368 | Samson | 44 |
| DK Denmark | — | 237 | 1 in 25K | 237 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 152 | 1 in 36K | 1.1K | — | 6 |
| PH Philippines | #324 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 73M | — | Samson | 74 |
11,123 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Samsón mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Samson, from Literary Hokkien 三孫／三孙 (sam-sun). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 10 other sources.
- In which country does Samsón have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Samsón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samson.
- Where is Samsón most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Samsón is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Samsón?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,123 people named Samsón in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Samsón compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Samsón is the 324th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sams%C3%B3nThe 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, “Samsón” — the 324th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.