Sama

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sama"

English

Etymology

As a Catalan surname, from Samà in Catalonia
As an Italian surname, variant spelling of the surname Samà.
As a Hindi/Gujarati surname, from सम्मा (sammā), name of a tribe. See Samma.
As an Asturian-Leonese surname, from Sama in Asturias.
As a Japanese surname, from 狭い (“narrow”), written phonetically as 佐満.

Proper noun

Sama (plural Samas)

A surname.

Statistics

According to the 2010 United States Census, Sama is the 28049^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 854 individuals. Sama is most common among White (41.69%), Asian/Pacific Islander (23.77%), Black/African American (17.68%), and Hispanic/Latino (15.34%) individuals.

Further reading

Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sama”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

AAMS, AAMs, AMSA, Maas, Masa, aams, amas, maas, masa

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