Šamec

surname · Latin script

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 8.3K(measured from records)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 104Kas Самець
  • SISlovenia1 in 5K

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 Šamec 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.

Czechia (measured from records)

629 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
70 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ŠamecLatin(measured from records)
СамецьCyrillic(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Samec in CZ Czechia, SI Slovenia, US United States and 1 more, Самець in UA Ukraine and Самец in BY Belarus.

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.

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šamec 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 Šamec is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—6291 in 17K629Samec38
HR Croatia—5081 in 8.3K508Šamec29
UA Ukraine—≈420 est.≈1 in 104K—Самець13
SI Slovenia#6524181 in 5K418Samec17
US United States—3241 in 1M332Samec20
BY Belarus—≈290 est.≈1 in 33K1Самец14
SK Slovakia—1411 in 39K141Samec15

629 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). 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)

Šamec is also recorded as 6 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 Samec

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Samec

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Samec

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Panama, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Samec, Saméc, Sameç

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Samec

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Samec

1 further group 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.

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)

FormalPoštovani Šamec,Dear Šamec, (English)
InformalPoštovani Šamec,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Šamec
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021508#1,395
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021476—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Šamec?
A machine transcription gives /ʂames/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Šamec have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 629 people named Šamec, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samec.
Where is Šamec most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šamec is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Šamec?
In Czechia, the national register counted 629 people named Šamec, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Šamec compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Šamec is the 652nd most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Šamec” — the 652nd most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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