Samin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: valuable, precious, priceless
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səmɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Samin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 718K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 120K
- DKDenmark1 in 245K
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
- 127 (measured from records)
- 1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)
463 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
valuable, precious, priceless
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Samin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 463 | 1 in 718K | 299 | Samin | 127 |
| SE Sweden | 85 | 1 in 120K | 85 | — | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 31 | 1 in 6.8M | 31 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 24 | 1 in 245K | 15 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 12 | 1 in 1.4M | 12 | Samin | 8 |
| FI Finland | 6 | 1 in 929K | 32 | — | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | 5 | 1 in 421K | 5 | — | — |
463 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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names. 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)
Samin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Fat, plump,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In sco, Together; in association or in company with.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, female equivalent of Same
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌹𐌽
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, mirror
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Samin Nosratb. 1979USIranian-American chef and food writer
- Samin Abedkhojastehb. 1999IRbadminton player
- Chun Sa-minb. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player (1999-)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 56 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 25 | #168,311 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 11 | #60,928 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #67,247 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Samin mean, and where does it come from?
- valuable, precious, priceless Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Samin?
- A machine transcription gives /səmɪn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Samin a male or female name?
- Samin is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Samin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 463 people named Samin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samin.
- Where is Samin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Samin is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 120 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Samin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 463 people named Samin in 2020, about 1 in 718 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Samin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saminThe 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, “Samin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.