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) is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It may occur as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Samby? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 359,182nd most commonly occurring family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 7,222,543 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 91 percent of Samby reside; 89 percent reside in West Africa and 35 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 740,891st most commonly held first name world-wide. It is borne by 154 people.
The surname is most widespread in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 357 people, or 1 in 51,406. In Burkina Faso Samby is most frequent in: Hauts-Bassins Region, where 97 percent live, Centre Region, where 2 percent live and Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 1 percent live. Other than Burkina Faso this last name is found in 27 countries. It is also common in Guinea, where 32 percent live and Senegal, where 20 percent live.
Samby Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Samby has changed over time. In England the number of people carrying the Samby surname 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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