Samm
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/sam/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Samm is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Beds.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 300Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 310Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 420Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 300K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Beds.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Samm 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | 1 | Samm | 14 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 932K | — | Samm | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 312K | 136 | Samm | 89 |
| US United States | 193 | 1 in 1.7M | 310 | Samm | 176 |
| PH Philippines | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 996K | — | Samm | 15 |
| CA Canada | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 417K | — | Samm | 47 |
| AU Australia | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 300K | 1 | Samm | 55 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 450K | — | Samm | 9 |
| SG Singapore | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 334K | — | Samm | 8 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)Samm is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Maltese, very hard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mch, zooming
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, step
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, fardeau
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Samm Bennettb. 1957USAmerican musician
- Samm Levineb. 1982USAmerican actor
- Samm Henshawb. 1994NGEnglish singer, songwriter, and record producer
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Samm mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Beds. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Samm?
- In Spanish /sam/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Samm?
- Mondonomo estimates about 302 people named Samm in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samm. After it come Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Samm a male or female name?
- Samm is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- How common is the name Samm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 193 people named Samm in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sammThe 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, “Samm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.