Samara
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Samara (an oblast of Russia)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɐmaɾɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Samara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.9K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 7.3K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
111,487 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Samara is read(measured from records)
Samara is one spelling over 3 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.
- Portuguese63%
Samara (an oblast of Russia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Samara in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Samara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #323 | 111,487 | 1 in 1.9K | 111K | Samara | 154 |
| US United States | — | 15,524 | 1 in 21K | 15K | Samara | 196 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #914 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Samara | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,673 | 1 in 8.8K | 5.7K | Samara | 85 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,670 | 1 in 3K | 5.7K | — | 21 |
| PY Paraguay | #702 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Samara | 9 |
111,487 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Samara is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
name of many men (P)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Seme dell’olmo
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Russian, probably derived from the city of the same name.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Italian, samara (winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Samara de Córdovab. 1923GTGuatemalan actor (1932-2015)
- Samara Felippob. 1978BRBrazilian actress
- Samara Sheppardb. 1990NZmountain biker
- Samara Karimovab. 1991KGKyrgyz singer
- Samara Vieirab. 1991BRBrazilian handball player
- Samara Velteb. 1991ESBasque writer, researcher
- Samara Weavingb. 1992AUAustralian actress and model (born 1992)
- Samara Almeidab. 1992BRBrazilian volleyball player
- Samara Joyb. 1999USAmerican jazz singer
- Samara Leeb. 2008KRKorean-American actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 93 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 111K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 111K | #292 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 110K | #439 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #1,856 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.7K | #811 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.7K | #320 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.1K | #444 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 957 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 524 | #292 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 338 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 43 | #1,856 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- Where does the name Samara come from?
- The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Samara mean?
- In Portuguese, Samara (an oblast of Russia)
- Is Samara a male or female name?
- Samara 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.
- How do you pronounce Samara?
- A machine transcription gives /sɐmaɾɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Samara have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 111 thousand people named Samara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samara.
- How common is the name Samara?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 111,487 people named Samara in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Samara compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Samara is the 323rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Samara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/samaraThe 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, “Samara” — the 323rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.