Samea Surname
Approximately 1,597 people bear this surname
Samea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 1,066 | 1:167,583 | 4,360 |
| Egypt | 275 | 1:334,312 | 21,412 |
| Thailand | 98 | 1:720,799 | 118,830 |
| Indonesia | 43 | 1:3,075,563 | 171,061 |
| India | 37 | 1:20,731,497 | 300,213 |
| Brazil | 20 | 1:10,703,717 | 220,519 |
| Papua New Guinea | 19 | 1:429,143 | 55,452 |
| Ivory Coast | 11 | 1:2,097,385 | 37,425 |
| Sweden | 7 | 1:1,406,680 | 102,017 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Sâmea (1) are calculated separately.
Samea (8,821) may also be a first name.
Samea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Samea (Hindi: शमॅा, Marathi: सामेआ) is most common in Pakistan. It may appear in the variant forms: Sâmea. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Samea? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 248,726th most commonly held family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 4,563,272 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 78 percent of Samea live; 69 percent live in South Asia and 67 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Samea is also the 66,594th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world It is held by 8,821 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Pakistan, where it is carried by 1,066 people, or 1 in 167,583. In Pakistan Samea is mostly concentrated in: Sindh, where 62 percent live, Punjab, where 22 percent live and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 12 percent live. Excluding Pakistan this last name occurs in 26 countries. It is also common in Egypt, where 17 percent live and Thailand, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Samea Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Samea in the Marathi language | ||
| सामेआ | same'a | - |
| Samea in the Hindi language | ||
| शमॅा | samea | 87.5 |
| सामिया | samiya | 12.5 |
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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 Samea
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