Cognomen الشمعة (الشمعة 
) , across the world, is a rare surname. The cognomen الشمعة is habitual in Western Asia, particularly Lebanon, where it is quite a rare surname, Syria, and Iraq, where it is a rare surname. Likewise, الشمعة is the forename as well as the last name.
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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| الشمعة | Syria, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq |
| سامي الشمعة SY (b. 1910) |
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| غادة الشمعة actor, SY (b. 1959) |
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