Samon

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/səmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Samon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 88K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M
  • UYUruguay1 in 43K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
139 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Samon 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.

Where Samon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,200 est.≈1 in 88K—Samon16
NG Nigeria≈780 est.≈1 in 276K—Samon12
US United States2651 in 1.3M362Samon139
PL Poland2531 in 151K128—1
ES Spain1871 in 267K187Samon11
UY Uruguay781 in 43K78——

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Samon is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Cuba

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Samón, Samòn, Sámon, Şamon, Sãmon

  • Thai given name64 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Philippines, United States, India

    Also written สามินี, ศมน, สามัน, Saminee, SamOL

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Nigeria, Kenya

    Also written Şamon

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Samoń

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Samō̜n, Samoń, Samǭn

  • Urdu surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Şamon, Samoń, Samón

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Samon is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, "hard."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In got, romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐍉𐌽

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, accusative of samo

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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)

FormalDear Mr Samon,
InformalHi Samon,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Samon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020362#60,172
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000296#63,141
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010265#73,215
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—187#17,410
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—187#17,374
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—78—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Samon?
A machine transcription gives /səmən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Samon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Samon in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samon.
Where is Samon most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Samon is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Samon?
In the United States, the national register counted 265 people named Samon in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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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, “Samon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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