Samįr
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Samįr is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: ‘Companion in night talk’. Femi- nine forms: Samar, Samira. Sana’ 9 ‘Brilliance’, ‘radiance’.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 243(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 295
- MAMorocco≈1 in 627
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 Samįr itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #876 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 243 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Sameer, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Samir in EG Egypt, DZ Algeria, MA Morocco and 4 more and Sameer in BR Brazil, PK Pakistan.
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)‘Companion in night talk’. Femi- nine forms: Samar, Samira. Sana’ 9 ‘Brilliance’, ‘radiance’.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Samįr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #579 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Sameer | 81 |
| DZ Algeria | #4 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 295 | — | Samir | 102 |
| BR Brazil | — | 111,487as Samara | 1 in 1.9K | 111K | Sameer | 27 |
| BD Bangladesh | #236 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Samir | 74 |
| EG Egypt | #187 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Samir | 178 |
| MA Morocco | #76 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 627 | — | Samir | 110 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #29 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 243 | 240 | Samir | 83 |
| TN Tunisia | #55 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 668 | 1.3K | Samir | 73 |
| SE Sweden | #765 | 4,025 | 1 in 2.5K | 4K | Samir | 62 |
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); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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 Samįr mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Companion in night talk’. Femi- nine forms: Samar, Samira. Sana’ 9 ‘Brilliance’, ‘radiance’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of Islamic Names and 5 other sources.
- Is Samįr a male or female name?
- Samįr is a male 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.
- In which country does Samįr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 168 thousand people named Sameer in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Samįr?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 4,025 people named Samįr, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Samįr compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Samįr is the 579th most common given name of 77,659 given names 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, “Samįr” — the 579th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.