Samarqand

loc · Uzbek · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Samarqand is a name, most frequently recorded in Uzbekistan. It appears chiefly in Uzbek and Russian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Samarqand (a city in Uzbekistan).

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  • UZUzbekistan1 in 42◐

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

91K ●

in 5 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
5 ●

29 records

Official registry-verified

Spellings & scripts●

SamarqandLatin · Uzbek●40K records
СамарқандCyrillic · Uzbek●5 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Samarqand (a city in Uzbekistan)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Samarqand is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UZ Uzbekistan40,09319 rec.—Samarqand5

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Languages●

  • Uzbek40K44%
  • Russian1341%
  • English241%
  • Kazakh111%
  • Italian101%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Uzbek40,08844%
Russian1341%
English241%
Kazakh111%
Italian101%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Samarqand is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian name4 records spelled Samarqand8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Самарканд, Samarkand

16 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.

Evidence●

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Samarqand under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Samarqand?
Our records include 90,724 bearers of Samarqand across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Samarqand have the most bearers?
Samarqand is most frequently recorded in Uzbekistan, where it is most often spelled samarqand.
What does the name Samarqand mean?
Recorded meaning: Samarqand (a city in Uzbekistan)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Samarqand”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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