Sameer
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from Sanskrit
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌsɑˈmɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sameer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 4th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 201K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 243as Samir
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 Sameer 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #876 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Samir in EG Egypt, DZ Algeria, MA Morocco and 4 more.
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)
A male given name from Sanskrit.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sameer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #579 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Sameer | 81 |
| DZ Algeria | #4 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 295 | — | Samir | 102 |
| BR Brazil | — | 111,487as Samara | 1 in 1.9K | 111K | Sameer | 27 |
| BD Bangladesh | #236 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Samir | 74 |
| EG Egypt | #187 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Samir | 178 |
| MA Morocco | #76 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 627 | — | Samir | 110 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #29 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 243 | 240 | Samir | 83 |
| TN Tunisia | #55 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 668 | 1.3K | Samir | 73 |
| NL Netherlands | #877 | 86 | 1 in 201K | 1.5K | Samir | 64 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
- Sameer Makariusb. 1924ARArgentine photographer and artist (1924-2009)
- Sameer Ahmad Ash-Shareefb. 1956JOJordanian writer
- Sameer Farahatb. 1965LBLebanese writer
- Sameer Singhb. 1970INComputer Science Professor at UCI studying Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
- Sameer Sainb. 1971INFounder of Everstone
- Sameer Bhujbalb. 1973INIndian politician
- Sameer Megheb. 1978INIndian politician
- Sameer Zuberib. 1979CACanadian politician
- Sameer Vermab. 1994INIndian badminton player
- Sameer Lakhanib. 2005UGUgandan badminton 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)
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)
Attested in 55 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 86 | #4,826 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 44 | #12,770 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Sameer?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌsɑˈmɪɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Sameer mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from Sanskrit. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Sameer?
- In the etymology graph, Samir is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Sameer a male or female name?
- Sameer is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sameer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 168 thousand people named Sameer in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sameer.
- How common is the name Sameer?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 86 people named Sameer, about 1 in 201 thousand residents.
- How common is Sameer compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Sameer is the 579th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sameer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sameerThe 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, “Sameer” — the 579th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.