Samek Surname
Approximately 7,343 people bear this surname
Samek Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland | 2,351 | 1:16,167 | 2,373 |
| Czechia | 1,714 | 1:6,204 | 724 |
| United States | 1,248 | 1:290,432 | 26,961 |
| Austria | 373 | 1:22,830 | 3,589 |
| Thailand | 373 | 1:189,379 | 31,152 |
| Germany | 226 | 1:356,219 | 34,354 |
| Slovakia | 205 | 1:26,031 | 4,409 |
| Canada | 157 | 1:234,685 | 22,439 |
| Egypt | 122 | 1:753,572 | 38,342 |
| Ukraine | 91 | 1:500,249 | 57,402 |
| Israel | 84 | 1:101,877 | 11,676 |
| Argentina | 57 | 1:749,884 | 50,572 |
| Papua New Guinea | 38 | 1:214,572 | 29,580 |
| Malaysia | 36 | 1:819,284 | 37,745 |
| Brazil | 35 | 1:6,116,409 | 148,801 |
| England | 28 | 1:1,989,931 | 78,001 |
| Russia | 27 | 1:5,337,891 | 231,865 |
| Kazakhstan | 21 | 1:842,024 | 52,736 |
| France | 18 | 1:3,690,151 | 224,666 |
| Indonesia | 17 | 1:7,779,364 | 314,803 |
| Australia | 17 | 1:1,587,982 | 78,599 |
| Italy | 15 | 1:4,077,113 | 105,022 |
| Switzerland | 13 | 1:631,763 | 43,230 |
| India | 12 | 1:63,922,115 | 578,870 |
| Belgium | 11 | 1:1,045,149 | 78,166 |
| Croatia | 11 | 1:384,419 | 33,360 |
| Sweden | 11 | 1:895,160 | 66,831 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Serbia | 2 | 1:3,572,474 | 32,645 |
| Slovenia | 2 | 1:1,243,838 | 27,519 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Bermuda | 1 | 1:65,279 | 3,010 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 28 | 1:1,793,524 | 92,026 |
The alternate forms: Sámek (6) are calculated separately.
Samek (453) may also be a first name.
Samek Demographics
Average Male Samek Height
175.94 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Samek Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samek Come From? nationality or country of origin
Samek (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺻﺎﻣﻚ, Hindi: समेक, Marathi: समेक, Russian: Самек) occurs most in Poland. It may occur in the variant forms: Sámek. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Samek? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 67,729th most widespread surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 992,448 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 70 percent of Samek live; 60 percent live in Eastern Europe and 58 percent live in West Slavic Europe. Samek is also the 401,726th most widely held given name world-wide, held by 453 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Poland, where it is held by 2,351 people, or 1 in 16,167. Excluding Poland it occurs in 51 countries. It also occurs in Czechia, where 23 percent are found and The United States, where 17 percent are found.
Samek Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Samek has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Samek surname grew 4,457 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Samek Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is chiefly Orthodox (75%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Samek surname are 10.43% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 57.2% being registered with the party.
The amount Samek earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 4.75% more than the national average, earning $45,197 USD per year and in Canada they earn 20% more than the national average, earning $59,619 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Samek Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Samek in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺻﺎﻣﻚ | samk | - |
| Samek in the Hindi language | ||
| समेक | sameka | - |
| Samek in the Marathi language | ||
| समेक | sameka | - |
| Samek in the Russian language | ||
| Самек | samek | - |
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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 Samek
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