Samâ
loc · Latin script
Samâ is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname. Recorded meaning: * As a Catalan surname, from Samà in Catalonia * As an Italian surname, variant spelling of the surname Samà. * As a Hindi/Gujarati surname, from सम्मा (sammā), name of a tribe. See Samma.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 30K
- FRFrance≈1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Samâ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #65 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 466 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
2,002,549 named Sharma
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sharma in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 1 more, Sama in EG Egypt, Sima in NO Norway and Saima in AE United Arab Emirates.
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)- Samàin(measured from records)
- Samain(measured from records)
- Sama root狭い“narrow”(measured from records)
* As a Catalan surname, from Samà in Catalonia * As an Italian surname, variant spelling of the surname Samà. * As a Hindi/Gujarati surname, from सम्मा (sammā), name of a tribe. See Samma. * As an Asturian-Leonese surname, from Sama in Asturias. * As a Japanese surname, from 狭い (“narrow”), written phonetically as 佐満.
Cited for this meaning 6
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Samâ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #11 | 2,002,549as Sharma | 1 in 662 | 2M | Sharma | 387 |
| BD Bangladesh | #139 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | listed | Sharma | 77 |
| US United States | — | 28,559as Sharma | 1 in 12K | 112K | Sharma | 466 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 591 | — | Saima | 70 |
| MY Malaysia | #697 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Sharma | 72 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Sama | 85 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,106as Sharma | 1 in 2.6K | 2.4K | Sima | 75 |
2,002,549 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Samâ mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a Catalan surname, from Samà in Catalonia * As an Italian surname, variant spelling of the surname Samà. * As a Hindi/Gujarati surname, from सम्मा (sammā), name of a tribe. See Samma. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Samâ have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.0 million people named Sharma, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Samâ?
- In India, the national register counted 2,002,549 people named Sharma, about 1 in 662 residents.
- How common is Samâ compared with other names?
- In India, Samâ is the 11th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Samâ” — the 11th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.