Saman

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Saman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country. In English, recorded as A fine; a monetary penalty imposed for breaking the law.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • LKSri Lanka≈1 in 415
  • SESweden1 in 11K

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.

Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)

≈55,000 people, est.

Sources
75 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 415 (inferred from the name graph)

Sri Lanka, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A fine; a monetary penalty imposed for breaking the law.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

How Saman is read(measured from records)

Saman is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English21%

    A fine; a monetary penalty imposed for breaking the law.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Hindi14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Saman in Hindi.

  • Persian9.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Saman in Persian.

  • Thai6.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Saman in Thai.

  • Arabic5.9%

    price, value

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

    price, value. ¥y Oo y%Sl5 Galil! 1yta5 Sa Sols Las ebb \g,2%5 "Therefore fear not men, but fear Me, and

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Saman 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 Saman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka≈55,000 est.≈1 in 415—Saman18
PK Pakistan≈30,000 est.≈1 in 7.8K—Saman59
IR Iran≈2,900 est.≈1 in 29K—Saman12
US United States1,5831 in 210K1KSaman65
SE Sweden9031 in 11K903Saman13
NO Norway≈140 est.≈1 in 38K390—4

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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Saman is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sam'An, Şaman

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Şaman, Sam'An, Sam-An, S-Aman, Samán

  • Turkish given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iraq, Kuwait, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Arabic, Azerbaijani

    Also written Şaman, Sam'An, Sâmân, Sâman, Šaman

  • Persian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Sāmān, ُsaman, Ozgoren, Şaman, Samán

  • Sinhala given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sri Lanka, United States, India, Italy

    Also written සමන්, සමන, Šámàń, Şaman, සුමන

  • a separate name10 spellings in the group

    Also written Samán, Sāman, Säman, Şaman, Sāṃaṅ

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Şaman, Sámán, Samán, Samān, Šaman

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Saman is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Saman är ett persiskt och kurdiskt namn som betyder ’pris, värde’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • price; value, an Arabic

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • Jasmine

    as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

192019401960198020002020Saman Tilakasiri, b. 1928Saman Arastoo, b. 1967Shwan Jalal, b. 1983Saman Tahmasebi, b. 1985Saman Abdevali, b. 1991Saman Ghoddos, b. 1993Saman Yasin, b. 1995Saman Fallah, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 64 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Saman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201K#8,976
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—903#1,821
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020590—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020556#8,976
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—390#2,974
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—134#6,342
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20246—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20065—

Reference works 6

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Saman mean, and where does it come from?
A fine; a monetary penalty imposed for breaking the law. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Saman a male or female name?
Saman is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Saman have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named Saman in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saman.
How common is the name Saman?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,583 people named Saman in 2020, about 1 in 210 thousand residents.

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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, “Saman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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