Samŷ
given name · Latin script
Samŷ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 168K(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 309K
- ECEcuador1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,978 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Samy in US United States, DZ Algeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Samŷ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,978 | 1 in 168K | 1.8K | Samy | 243 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,291 | 1 in 164K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,232 | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | — | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 294 | 1 in 170K | 294 | — | 31 |
| SE Sweden | — | 262 | 1 in 39K | 262 | — | 17 |
| DZ Algeria | #200 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Samy | 53 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 46 | 1 in 111K | 46 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 41 | 1 in 136K | 95 | — | 7 |
1,978 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Samŷ a male or female name?
- Samŷ is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Samŷ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Samŷ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samy.
- Where is Samŷ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Samŷ is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Samŷ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,978 people named Samŷ in 2020, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.
- How common is Samŷ compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Samŷ is the 200th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Samŷ?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sam%C5%B7The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Samŷ” — the 200th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.