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Family name שמאי (Shamay
, Shamai
, Shammai
) , throughout the world, is a rare surname. The cognomen שמאי is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a rare surname, Panama, where it is a rare surname, and Bulgaria. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Israel, the United States, and Iraq. Likewise, שמאי is the forename as well as the last name.