Around the world, สำคัญ (Samkan 
, Samkhan 
, สำคัญ) is a very rare unisex first name. The first name สำคัญ is habitual in Thailand, where it is a very rare masculine name, and India, where it is an extremely rare epicene name. Much less frequently, สำคัญ is the last name as well as the forename.