Samoo Surname
Approximately 6,907 people bear this surname
Samoo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 5,760 | 1:31,015 | 1,525 |
| Egypt | 458 | 1:200,733 | 14,525 |
| Mauritius | 240 | 1:5,389 | 1,084 |
| Saudi Arabia | 239 | 1:129,104 | 17,726 |
| Thailand | 67 | 1:1,054,304 | 158,943 |
| England | 38 | 1:1,466,265 | 63,675 |
| United Arab Emirates | 31 | 1:295,557 | 19,854 |
| Iran | 20 | 1:3,839,126 | 105,129 |
| Malaysia | 11 | 1:2,681,293 | 102,971 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Yemen | 2 | 1:13,212,647 | 40,633 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
The alternate forms: Sámoo (1) are calculated separately.
Samoo (1,318) may also be a first name.
Samoo Demographics
Samoo Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Samoo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samoo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Samoo (Hindi: सामू, Marathi: समु) is most common in Pakistan. It may be rendered as: Sámoo. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Samoo? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 71,482nd most widely held family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 1,055,096 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 89 percent of Samoo live; 84 percent live in South Asia and 84 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Samoo is also the 216,497th most common first name worldwide. It is borne by 1,318 people.
The surname Samoo is most frequently held in Pakistan, where it is borne by 5,760 people, or 1 in 31,015. In Pakistan Samoo is mostly found in: Sindh, where 100 percent reside, Balochistan, where 0 percent reside and Punjab, where 0 percent reside. Not including Pakistan it is found in 30 countries. It is also found in Egypt, where 7 percent reside and Mauritius, where 3 percent reside.
Samoo Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Samoo last name is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Samoo Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Samoo in the Marathi language | ||
| समु | samu | - |
| Samoo in the Hindi language | ||
| सामू | samu | 97.84 |
| समू | samu | 0.86 |
| शम्सो | samso | 0.43 |
| शम्मो | sam'mo | 0.43 |
| सम्मो | sam'mo | 0.43 |
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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 Samoo
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