Samha

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Samha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: magnanimous.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 6.2M(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

34 people

Sources
33 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.2M (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

magnanimous

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Samha 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 Samha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil341 in 6.2M34——
US United States——listedSamha33
DE Germany———Samha15
IT Italy——1Samha2
GB United Kingdom———Samha12
NG Nigeria———Samha8
NL Netherlands———Samha1

34 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

Samha is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Śāṃha

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Cuba

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ṧǎmhǎ

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye

    Also written Şamha

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Cameroon

    Also written Sâmhâ, Sãmhã, Şamha

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Şamha

32 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Samha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—34#136,957
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Samha mean, and where does it come from?
magnanimous Recorded by African Muslim Names.
In which country does Samha have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 34 people named Samha, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Samha most common?
Samha is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.2 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Samha?
In Brazil, the national register counted 34 people named Samha, about 1 in 6.2 million 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, “Samha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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