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
The surname Samua (Arabic: صيموع, Hindi: समुआ, Oriya: ସାମୁଆ) is found most in India. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Samua? popularity and diffusion
It is the 404,712th most commonly occurring surname globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 8,415,180 people. The last name is mostly found 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 frequent first name worldwide, held by 838 people.
The surname Samua is most commonly occurring in India, where it is carried by 583 people, or 1 in 1,315,721. In India Samua is primarily concentrated in: Assam, where 96 percent live, Bihar, where 2 percent live and Madhya Pradesh, where 1 percent live. Not including India Samua occurs in 19 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 8 percent live and The Philippines, where 7 percent live.
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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