Samby Surname
Approximately 1,009 people bear this surname
Samby Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 357 | 1:51,406 | 2,257 |
| Guinea | 321 | 1:36,865 | 578 |
| Senegal | 206 | 1:70,774 | 924 |
| India | 45 | 1:17,045,897 | 267,282 |
| Congo | 16 | 1:311,818 | 9,139 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 5 | 1:4,875,074 | 116,529 |
Samby (154) may also be a first name.
Samby Demographics
Average Samby Salary in
England
£25,410
Per year
Average Salary in
England
£26,976
Per year
Samby Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samby Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Samby (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺻﻤﺒﻲ, Marathi: संबी) occurs in Burkina Faso more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Samby? popularity and diffusion
The last name Samby is the 359,182nd most prevalent last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 7,222,543 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Samby live; 89 percent live in West Africa and 35 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 740,891st most common first name in the world It is held by 154 people.
The surname is most widely held in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 357 people, or 1 in 51,406. In Burkina Faso Samby is most prevalent in: Hauts-Bassins Region, where 97 percent are found, Centre Region, where 2 percent are found and Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 1 percent are found. Excluding Burkina Faso this last name occurs in 27 countries. It also occurs in Guinea, where 32 percent are found and Senegal, where 20 percent are found.
Samby Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Samby has changed through the years. In England the number of people who held the Samby last name grew 260 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Samby Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Samby in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺻﻤﺒﻲ | smby | 75 |
| ﺻﻤﺒﻰ | smby | 25 |
| Samby in the Marathi language | ||
| संबी | sambi | 50 |
| सँबी | sambi | 50 |
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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
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- 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 Samby
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