Sam'
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sam' is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ,2 Short form of )Samuel (or less frequently of )Samson), and of )Samantha.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 73K
- SESweden1 in 905
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- 1 in 905 (inferred from the name graph)
121,443 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sam in US United States, ES Spain, GA Gabon.
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)
,2 Short form of )Samuel (or less frequently of )Samson), and of )Samantha.
Sources 9
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sam' 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.
121,443 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Sam' mean, and where does it come from?
- ,2 Short form of )Samuel (or less frequently of )Samson), and of )Samantha. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 7 other sources.
- Is Sam' a male or female name?
- Sam' 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 Sam' have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 121 thousand people named Sam', more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sam.
- Where is Sam' most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sam' is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 905 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sam'?
- In the United States, the national register counted 121,443 people named Sam' in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Sam' compared with other names?
- In Gabon, Sam' is the 211th most common given name of 2,821 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sam'The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sam'” — the 211th most common given name in Gabon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.