Samim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pure; sincere; just
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries
Samim is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 93Kfew records
- SESweden1 in 101K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)pure; sincere; just
Cited for this meaning 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world
(measured from records)Samim 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 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 156 | Samim | 81 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Samim | 19 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Samim | 13 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 539K | listed | Samim | 9 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Samim | 13 |
| US United States | 200 | 1 in 1.7M | 163 | Samim | 105 |
| SE Sweden | 101 | 1 in 101K | 101 | Samim | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Samim | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)Samim is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Real, genuine,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, sincere, genuine, pure, true, essence, heart
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, sincere, genuine, pure, true, essence,
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Turkish, Öz, asıl, iç, gönül.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- Samim Bilgenb. 1910TRTurkish attorney and musician (1910–2005)
- Samim Kocagözb. 1916TRTurkish writer (1916–1993)
- Samim Göreçb. 1924TRTurkish basketball player (1924–2000)
- Samim Yağızb. 1950TRTurkish association football player (1950–2019)
- Samim Akgönülb. 2000TRTurkish historian (born 2000)
- Samim ErhanTRTurkish researcher
- Samim MeriçTRTurkish actor
- Samim UtkuTRTurkish film director
- Samim DeğerTRTurkish film director
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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1K | #5,244 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 156 | #21,038 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 29 | #19,253 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Samim mean, and where does it come from?
- pure; sincere; just Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Samim a male or female name?
- Samim is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- In which country does Samim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 115 thousand people named Samim in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samim.
- How common is the name Samim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 200 people named Samim in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Samim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/samimThe 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, “Samim”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.