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    The surname Sama

    A surname, carried by 854 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S500

    Sama: #28,049 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Sama #28,049, 854 people Sama: #28,049 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Sama #28,049, 854 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sama is more common than 82.7% of them.

    Origin

    * 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.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 854 people named Sama in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 361,529 Americans. That is up 33% since 2000, when the Census counted 644.

    #28,049
    rank among US surnames
    854
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +32.6%
    change since 2000 (was #33,425)

    Who is named Sama

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    42% of people named Sama identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).

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

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sama

    Sama has the Soundex code S500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S500.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sama come from?
    * 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…
    How common is the surname Sama?
    854 people in the United States had the surname Sama in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 361,529 Americans. It ranked 28,049th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sama?
    In the 2010 Census, 42% of people named Sama identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Sama getting more or less common?
    More common. 644 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 854 in 2010, up 33%.