Samoa Surname
Approximately 457 people bear this surname
Samoa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 239 | 1:34,116 | 4,010 |
| Indonesia | 38 | 1:3,480,242 | 186,493 |
| Ivory Coast | 33 | 1:699,128 | 19,606 |
| Cameroon | 31 | 1:669,970 | 49,334 |
| Solomon Islands | 29 | 1:20,001 | 3,902 |
| American Samoa | 28 | 1:1,991 | 404 |
| Philippines | 22 | 1:4,601,737 | 165,269 |
| India | 17 | 1:45,121,493 | 474,784 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| Cambodia | 7 | 1:2,212,449 | 7,503 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
Samoa (952) may also be a first name.
Samoa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samoa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Samoa (Arabic: سماوي, Oriya: ସାମଆ, Russian: Самоа) has its highest incidence in Papua New Guinea. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Samoa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Samoa is the 658,434th most commonly used family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 15,946,490 people. This last name occurs mostly in Oceania, where 73 percent of Samoa live; 73 percent live in Oceania Islands and 61 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Samoa is also the 261,794th most frequently held given name at a global level, held by 952 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 239 people, or 1 in 34,116. In Papua New Guinea Samoa is most frequent in: Milne Bay, where 23 percent are found, Central, where 20 percent are found and Western, where 10 percent are found. Beside Papua New Guinea this surname exists in 14 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 8 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 7 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Samoa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Samoa in the Oriya language | ||
| ସାମଆ | sama'a | - |
| Samoa in the Russian language | ||
| Самоа | samoa | - |
| Samoa in the Arabic language | ||
| سماوي | smawy | - |
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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 Samoa
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