Samper

surname · Latin script

Meaning: the various places in N France called Saint-Pierre, from the dedication of their churches to St Peter

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 9.5K(measured from records)
  • COColombia≈1 in 21K
  • ARArgentina1 in 104K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

5,275 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
143 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SamperLatin(measured from records)
СамперCyrillic(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(measured from records)

the various places in N France called Saint-Pierre, from the dedication of their churches to St Peter. Vars.: Samber, Semper, Sember, Simper, Symber. Cogns.: Fr.: Saint-Pierre, Saint-Pere, Saint-Pe. pier(i), Sampie(t)ro. Sp.: San Pedro, Sampedro. It.: Sam-

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Where in the world(measured from records)

Samper 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 Samper is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#8175,2751 in 9.5K5.3KSamper113
CO Colombia—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 21K2Samper77
PH Philippines—≈730 est.≈1 in 150K—Samper17
AR Argentina—4371 in 104K437Samper39
FR France—≈430 est.≈1 in 159K42Samper143

5,275 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Samper is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sàmper, Sámper

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Egypt

    Also written Sämper

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Šamper

40 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)

Samper is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In bew, to pick-up

    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)

1850190019502000Ricardo Samper Ibáñez, b. 1881Daniel Samper Pizano, b. 1945María Ángeles Pérez Samper, b. 1949Ernesto Samper, b. 1950Santiago Gamboa, b. 1962Daniel Samper Ospina, b. 1974Alexis Texas, b. 1985Samper, b. 1985Jordi Samper Montaña, b. 1990Sergi Samper, b. 1995

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)

FormalEstimado/a Samper,Dear Samper, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Samper,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Samper
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.3K#1,014
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.3K#1,013
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—437—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196174—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197172—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198155—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195152—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194143—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199142—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191115—

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Where does the name Samper come from?
the various places in N France called Saint-Pierre, from the dedication of their churches to St Peter. Vars.: Samber, Semper, Sember, Simper, Symber. Cogns.: Fr.: Saint-Pierre, Saint-Pere, Saint-Pe. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
How do you pronounce Samper?
A machine transcription gives /sampeɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Samper mean?
Recorded meaning: the various places in N France called Saint-Pierre, from the dedication of their churches to St Peter.
In which country does Samper have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Samper, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samper.
Where is Samper most common?
Samper is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Samper?
In Spain, the national register counted 5,275 people named Samper, about 1 in 9.5 thousand residents.
How common is Samper compared with other names?
In Spain, Samper is the 817th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Samper” — the 817th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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