Samana
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries
Samana is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- PKPakistan
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Agni (५); Indra (५); Siva (N); Visnu (N)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Samana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Samana is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An ascetic, (especially) an ascetic monk who ignores the Vedas in Buddhist and Indian contexts.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, essive singular of sama
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gem-pro, at one; together
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In emi, outrigger float
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mox, outrigger
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Samana have the most bearers?
- Samana is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled samana.
What do you want to know about Samana?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/samanaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Samana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.