# Semaan (surname)

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

A surname from Arabic.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Arabic |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 654 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,574 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 472,088 people |
| Change since 2000 | +27% (516 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَمْعَان (samʕān). This surname is mostly found in Saudi Arabia.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Semaan 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) | 91% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.4% |
| Two or more races | 4.1% |

## Similar surnames

Seaman, Samano, Seeman, Seamon, Seman, Semon, Semien, Seemann, Suman, Simon, Shannon, Shuman.

## 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.