Sambi

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sɑᵐɓi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sambi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 3.9Kas Simba
  • NLNetherlands1 in 32Kas Sambo

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 Sambi 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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

4,292 named Simba, 2024

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)

Tanzania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SambiLatin(measured from records)
సాంబTelugu(measured from records)

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sambi 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.

Where Sambi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador4,292as Simba1 in 3.9K4.3K——
TZ Tanzania≈1,200 est.≈1 in 48K2—1
NL Netherlands532as Sambo1 in 32K532——
US United States385as Sambo1 in 864K522Sambi31
ES Spain318as Samba1 in 157K1.6K—1
NO Norway34as Samba1 in 161K58——

4,292 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sambi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sāmbi

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Šambi

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sambi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, Sambian (member of an ancient Prussian tribe)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kmb, Doido

    as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Sambi,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Sambi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—13—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8#134,434
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20063—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20232—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20222—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19681—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19531—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19501—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19241—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19221—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19091—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Sambi?
A machine transcription gives /sɑᵐɓi/ (IPA) for Swahili.
In which country does Sambi have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Simba, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Sambi?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,292 people named Simba in 2024, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Sambi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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