# Sama (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sama/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 854 |
| US rank (2010) | 28,049 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 361,529 people |
| Change since 2000 | +33% (644 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Catalan surname, from Samà in Catalonia * As an Italian surname, variant spelling of the surname Samà. * As a Hindi/Gujarati surname, from सम्मा (sammā), name of a tribe. See Samma. * As an Asturian-Leonese surname, from Sama in Asturias. * As a Japanese surname, from 狭い (“narrow”), written phonetically as 佐満.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sama in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 42% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 18% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 15% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 24% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 0.7% |

## Similar surnames

Sam, Saum, Sami, Samayoa, Sham, Sanna, Sweeney, Snow, Sheehan, Swain, Sun, Swan.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.