Samua Surname
Approximately 866 people bear this surname
Samua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 583 | 1:1,315,721 | 51,469 |
| Indonesia | 70 | 1:1,889,274 | 120,273 |
| Philippines | 62 | 1:1,632,875 | 108,878 |
| Papua New Guinea | 53 | 1:153,844 | 21,244 |
| Argentina | 24 | 1:1,780,976 | 92,783 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Brazil | 19 | 1:11,267,070 | 228,483 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Cameroon | 7 | 1:2,967,010 | 123,373 |
| Taiwan | 5 | 1:4,688,949 | 27,695 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Maldives | 2 | 1:202,086 | 4,973 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
Samua (838) may also be a first name.
Samua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samua Come From? nationality or country of origin
Samua (Arabic: صيموع, Hindi: समुआ, Oriya: ସାମୁଆ) is found in India more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Samua? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 404,712th most prevalent last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 8,415,180 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 83 percent of Samua reside; 68 percent reside in South Asia and 67 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 282,036th most commonly used first name at a global level, held by 838 people.
The last name Samua is most prevalent in India, where it is borne by 583 people, or 1 in 1,315,721. In India it is most prevalent in: Assam, where 96 percent are found, Bihar, where 2 percent are found and Madhya Pradesh, where 1 percent are found. Other than India Samua occurs in 19 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 8 percent are found and The Philippines, where 7 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Samua Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Samua in the Hindi language | ||
| समुआ | samu'a | 69.23 |
| संउआ | samu'a | 11.54 |
| समुअ | samu'a | 7.69 |
| समूा | samua | 7.69 |
| समूआ | samu'a | 3.85 |
| Samua in the Oriya language | ||
| ସାମୁଆ | samu'a | 50 |
| ସମୁଆ | samu'a | 50 |
| Samua in the Arabic language | ||
| صيموع | symw | - |
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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 Samua
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