Samake
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/samak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Samake is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country. In Mali it is the 30th most common surname.
- MLMali≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 2K
- GNGuinea≈1 in 4.7K
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mali, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Samake 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 3.3K | Samake | 15 |
| ML Mali | #30 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 13 | Samake | 33 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | listed | — | 7 |
| SN Senegal | #374 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Samake | 11 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Samake | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 581 | 1 in 86K | 581 | Samake | 13 |
| MR Mauritania | #70 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Samake | 4 |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Soumaila Samakeb. 1978MLMalian basketball player (born 1978)
- Rokiatou Samakeb. 1984MLMalian footballer
- Abdou Samakeb. 1996MLMalian footballer
- Abdulaye Samakeb. 1996GNGuinean association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 3.3K | #164 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 581 | #7,088 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 581 | #7,077 |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 13 | #22 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Samake?
- A machine transcription gives /samak/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Samake have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Samake in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samake.
- How common is the name Samake?
- In Spain, the national register counted 581 people named Samake, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
- How common is Samake compared with other names?
- In Mali, Samake is the 30th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Samake?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/samakeThe 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, “Samake” — the 30th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.