Samaah Surname
Approximately 88 people bear this surname
Samaah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maldives | 39 | 1:10,363 | 806 |
| Indonesia | 25 | 1:5,289,968 | 246,176 |
| Iran | 15 | 1:5,118,835 | 123,814 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Samaah (1,570) may also be a first name.
Samaah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samaah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Samaah (Arabic: سمعاه) is borne by more people in The Maldives than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Samaah? popularity and diffusion
Samaah is the 1,994,173rd most widely held surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 82,813,022 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 88 percent of Samaah are found; 61 percent are found in South Asia and 61 percent are found in Islamic South Asia. Samaah is also the 195,408th most frequently used given name at a global level. It is borne by 1,570 people.
This last name is most commonly used in The Maldives, where it is held by 39 people, or 1 in 10,363. In The Maldives it is mostly concentrated in: Malé, where 33 percent reside, Seenu Atoll, where 10 percent reside and Raa Atoll, where 8 percent reside. Besides The Maldives this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 28 percent reside and Iran, where 17 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Samaah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Samaah in the Arabic language | ||
| سمعاه | smah | - |
| سمعيه | smyh | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Samaah
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