Samad Surname
Approximately 290,355 people bear this surname
Samad Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 80,777 | 1:2,212 | 297 |
| India | 79,611 | 1:9,635 | 816 |
| Bangladesh | 58,667 | 1:2,716 | 267 |
| Indonesia | 17,604 | 1:7,512 | 978 |
| Malaysia | 12,939 | 1:2,279 | 343 |
| Saudi Arabia | 5,764 | 1:5,353 | 736 |
| Afghanistan | 5,729 | 1:5,612 | 503 |
| Philippines | 4,251 | 1:23,815 | 3,145 |
| Iran | 2,666 | 1:28,801 | 3,486 |
| Sudan | 2,520 | 1:14,885 | 2,042 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2,248 | 1:4,076 | 510 |
| Nigeria | 2,030 | 1:87,262 | 6,109 |
| Sri Lanka | 1,973 | 1:10,547 | 1,525 |
| Morocco | 1,806 | 1:19,090 | 2,933 |
| Egypt | 1,739 | 1:52,867 | 5,115 |
| United States | 1,404 | 1:258,162 | 24,403 |
| Iraq | 943 | 1:37,139 | 1,643 |
| Somalia | 882 | 1:15,252 | 975 |
| England | 784 | 1:71,069 | 8,153 |
| Ghana | 762 | 1:35,460 | 4,134 |
| Kuwait | 665 | 1:5,715 | 774 |
| Qatar | 593 | 1:3,976 | 402 |
| Jordan | 438 | 1:20,188 | 2,978 |
| Canada | 406 | 1:90,753 | 9,966 |
| Guyana | 308 | 1:2,475 | 452 |
| Singapore | 270 | 1:20,399 | 813 |
| Bahrain | 264 | 1:5,108 | 938 |
| Brunei | 264 | 1:1,586 | 307 |
| Maldives | 257 | 1:1,573 | 163 |
| Oman | 226 | 1:16,318 | 1,678 |
| Thailand | 218 | 1:324,029 | 55,878 |
| Australia | 182 | 1:148,328 | 15,783 |
| Algeria | 181 | 1:213,434 | 24,784 |
| Palestine | 129 | 1:35,262 | 4,344 |
| South Africa | 86 | 1:629,973 | 47,084 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 83 | 1:16,433 | 2,039 |
| Brazil | 47 | 1:4,554,773 | 120,089 |
| Germany | 47 | 1:1,712,882 | 99,068 |
| Mauritania | 45 | 1:90,997 | 5,761 |
| France | 44 | 1:1,509,607 | 143,950 |
| Nepal | 44 | 1:647,294 | 4,928 |
| Sweden | 42 | 1:234,447 | 16,276 |
| New Zealand | 34 | 1:133,186 | 15,994 |
| Russia | 34 | 1:4,238,913 | 201,756 |
| Argentina | 27 | 1:1,583,089 | 86,049 |
| Scotland | 23 | 1:232,775 | 11,829 |
| Netherlands | 20 | 1:844,359 | 60,801 |
| Spain | 18 | 1:2,597,335 | 59,996 |
| Azerbaijan | 17 | 1:567,595 | 10,450 |
| Ireland | 16 | 1:294,309 | 10,207 |
| Wales | 16 | 1:193,408 | 12,484 |
| Niger | 15 | 1:1,279,468 | 26,841 |
| Tajikistan | 13 | 1:645,130 | 4,278 |
| Yemen | 13 | 1:2,032,715 | 13,240 |
| Belarus | 12 | 1:791,755 | 62,255 |
| Jamaica | 11 | 1:260,904 | 6,695 |
| Kazakhstan | 11 | 1:1,607,500 | 79,317 |
| China | 10 | 1:136,732,157 | 7,199 |
| Fiji | 9 | 1:99,377 | 1,883 |
| Hong Kong | 9 | 1:815,054 | 3,802 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 9 | 1:12,264 | 1,665 |
| Italy | 8 | 1:7,644,586 | 115,463 |
| Norway | 8 | 1:642,786 | 47,258 |
| Denmark | 7 | 1:806,388 | 43,211 |
| Poland | 7 | 1:5,429,821 | 146,768 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Finland | 5 | 1:1,099,340 | 45,512 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| Venezuela | 4 | 1:7,551,019 | 53,668 |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 1:2,326,302 | 54,089 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 1:2,986,327 | 84,533 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Seychelles | 1 | 1:92,393 | 1,532 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
Samad (177,266) may also be a first name.
Samad Demographics
Average Male Samad Height
170.66 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Samad Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samad Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Samad (Arabic: سماد, Bengali: সামাদ, Georgian: სამად, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺼﻤﺪ, Hindi: समद, Marathi: समद, Oriya: ସାମାଡ, Russian: Самад) is borne by more people in Pakistan than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Samad? popularity and diffusion
The surname Samad is the 1,889th most frequently occurring family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 25,099 people. This surname is primarily found in Asia, where 95 percent of Samad reside; 79 percent reside in South Asia and 51 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. Samad is also the 5,930th most commonly used first name globally. It is borne by 177,266 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Pakistan, where it is held by 80,777 people, or 1 in 2,212. In Pakistan Samad is most frequent in: Balochistan, where 43 percent are found, Sindh, where 25 percent are found and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 19 percent are found. Not including Pakistan this surname occurs in 106 countries. It is also common in India, where 27 percent are found and Bangladesh, where 20 percent are found.
Samad Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is chiefly Muslim (50%) in Kenya and Christian (97%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Samad last name are 7.97% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 61.2% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Samad earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 20.02% less than the national average, earning 276,807 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 31.97% less than the national average, earning R 161,664 per year; in United States they earn 8.45% more than the national average, earning $46,796 USD per year and in Canada they earn 16.02% more than the national average, earning $57,642 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Samad Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Samad in the Georgian language | ||
| სამად | samad | - |
| Samad in the Hindi language | ||
| समद | samada | 98.41 |
| सामद | samada | 0.23 |
| समाद | samada | 0.21 |
| ़समद | samada | 0.04 |
| शमद | samada | 0.03 |
| समड | samada | 0.03 |
| सामाद | samada | 0.02 |
| शमदा | samada | 0.02 |
| सामड | samada | 0.01 |
| समउ | sama'u | 0.01 |
| स़मद | samada | 0.01 |
| सम | sama | 0.01 |
| ताल | tala | 0.01 |
| समड् | samad | 0.01 |
| समडा | samada | 0.01 |
| Samad in the Marathi language | ||
| समद | samada | 80.07 |
| असमद | asamada | 12.75 |
| सामद | samada | 0.69 |
| समाद | samada | 0.31 |
| मद | mada | 0.22 |
| आमद | amada | 0.11 |
| सयद | sayada | 0.08 |
| सामाद | samada | 0.05 |
| समड | samada | 0.04 |
| समत | samata | 0.04 |
| अमद | amada | 0.03 |
| शमशु | samasu | 0.03 |
| अहद | ahada | 0.03 |
| समर | samara | 0.03 |
| सामाड | samada | 0.02 |
| शामद | samada | 0.02 |
| शमी | sami | 0.02 |
| दमद | damada | 0.02 |
| समदा | samada | 0.02 |
| शमसु | samasu | 0.02 |
| अमर | amara | 0.02 |
| आहद | ahada | 0.02 |
| सामड | samada | 0.02 |
| चाँद | camda | 0.02 |
| असद | asada | 0.02 |
| समस | samasa | 0.01 |
| सयाद | sayada | 0.01 |
| अहाद | ahada | 0.01 |
| समुद | samuda | 0.01 |
| शमणा | samana | 0.01 |
| आहाद | ahada | 0.01 |
| शमु | samu | 0.01 |
| शायद | sayada | 0.01 |
| समन | samana | 0.01 |
| हमद | hamada | 0.01 |
| शमीद | samida | 0.01 |
| साहद | sahada | 0.01 |
| माडी | madi | 0.01 |
| अाद | aada | 0.01 |
| सामत | samata | 0.01 |
| अमान | amana | 0.01 |
| सामेद | sameda | 0.01 |
| समेद | sameda | 0.01 |
| इसाम | isama | 0.01 |
| यमद | yamada | 0.01 |
| आसमा | asama | 0.01 |
| समय | samaya | 0.01 |
| ़समद | samada | 0.01 |
| समूद | samuda | 0.01 |
| शमत | samata | 0.01 |
| शहादु | sahadu | 0.01 |
| दमडू | damadu | 0.01 |
| Samad in the Bengali language | ||
| সামাদ | samada | 73.68 |
| ছামাদ | chamada | 15.79 |
| সামদ | samada | 5.26 |
| ছমেদ | chameda | 5.26 |
| Samad in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺼﻤﺪ | alsmd | 60 |
| ﺻﻤﺪ | smd | 40 |
| Samad in the Oriya language | ||
| ସାମାଡ | samada | 42.12 |
| ସାମାଦ | samada | 33.47 |
| ସାମଦ | samada | 9.61 |
| ସମଦ | samada | 3.17 |
| ସମାଦ | samada | 2.98 |
| ସମାଡ | samada | 2.2 |
| ସାମାଦ୍ | samad | 1.29 |
| ସାମାଡ୍ | samad | 1.15 |
| ସାମଡ | samada | 0.81 |
| ସମଦ୍ | samad | 0.47 |
| ସାମଦ୍ | samad | 0.22 |
| ସମାଦ୍ | samad | 0.21 |
| ଶାମାଦ | samada | 0.2 |
| ସମାଡ୍ | samad | 0.11 |
| ସାମାଡ଼ | samara | 0.1 |
| ଶାମାଡ | samada | 0.06 |
| ସାମଡ଼ | samara | 0.05 |
| ସମାଡ଼ | samara | 0.02 |
| ସାମଡ୍ | samad | 0.02 |
| ସାମାତ | samata | 0.02 |
| ଷାମାଦ | samada | 0.01 |
| ସାମତ | samata | 0.01 |
| ସାମା | sama | 0.01 |
| ମହା | maha | 0.01 |
| ସମାହ୍ | samah | 0.01 |
| ଓରାମ | orama | 0.01 |
| ସାମଳ | samala | 0.01 |
| ସାମା଼ଡ | samada | 0.01 |
| ସମାଟ୍ | samat | 0.01 |
| ସାମଡା | samada | 0.01 |
| ସମତ | samata | 0.01 |
| େଯମସ୍ | eyamas | 0.01 |
| ସାମାନ | samana | 0.01 |
| ଶାମଦ | samada | 0.01 |
| ସମରା | samara | 0.01 |
| ସମଡ୍ | samad | 0.01 |
| େଜମା | ejama | 0.01 |
| ଶମଦ | samada | 0.01 |
| ସାମ | sama | 0.01 |
| ଖଁା | khama | 0.01 |
| Samad in the Russian language | ||
| Самад | samad | - |
| Samad in the Arabic language | ||
| سماد | smad | - |
| الصمد | alsmd | - |
| صمد | smd | - |
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