Samar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pleasant conversation, evening or nightly conversation (A Dictionary of Muslim Names)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Norway (SSB): listed as female
- Spain (INE): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 41 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Samar is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Samar is also written সমর in Bengali.
- SYSyria≈1 in 740few records(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 7.9K
- INIndia≈1 in 9.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Samar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 741 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Samar in other scripts: Bengali
(measured from records)Locally spelled Summer in US United States.
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
(measured from records)pleasant conversation, evening or nightly conversation
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Samar, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Samar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 131 | Samar | 173 |
| BR Brazil | — | 111,487as Samara | 1 in 1.9K | 111K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 70,693as Summer | 1 in 4.7K | 70K | Summer | 166 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 741 | — | Samar | 14 |
| PK Pakistan | #413 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | listed | Samar | 68 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,670as Samara | 1 in 3K | 5.7K | — | 4 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Samar | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 819 | 1 in 12K | 819 | Samar | 15 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Samar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Samar är en femininform av → Samir.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, island, Philippines
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Arabic, dark, brown
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, weibl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. samar »vertrauliche nächtliche Unterhal tung« zu arab. samara »sich am Abend oder in der Nacht unterhalten«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Salomea, Salomee, Salomeli, Salomey, Salomi, Salomi, Salomia, Salomya
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Samar Yazbekb. 1970SYSyrian writer and journalist
- Samar Badawib. 1981SASaudi Arabian feminist
- Samar Quptyb. 1989ILactress
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)77 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 41 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Samar a male or female name?
- Samar is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Norway (SSB): listed as female; Spain (INE): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Samar mean, and where does it come from?
- pleasant conversation, evening or nightly conversation Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Which countries have the most people named Samar?
- Mondonomo estimates about 154 thousand people named Samar in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samar. After it come Brazil, United States, Syria and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Samar?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 819 people named Samar, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Samar compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Samar is the 413th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Samar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/samarThe 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, “Samar” — ranked 23801st in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.