Sameer

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Sameer is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Azerbaijan it is the 16th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A male given name from Sanskrit.

rarermore common
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 327◐
  • TNTunisia1 in 633
  • MAMorocco1 in 991

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

≈169K ●

across 11 countries

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
310 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.9K ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

SamirLatin · Hindi●518K records
СамирCyrillic · Russian●63K records
সমীরBengali · Bangla●4K records
ᲡამირGeorgian · Georgian●2.4K records
ซามีรThai · Thai●17 records
사미르Hangul · Korean●2 records
సమరTelugu · Telugu●1 records
ΣαμιρGreek · Greek●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Samir in IN India, US United States, BR Brazil and 19 more, Самир in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Самір in UA Ukraine and Სამირ in GE Georgia.

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●

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●

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

Where Sameer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#2571,216,704593K rec.—376Samir261
BR Brazil—111,487△193 rec.1 in 1.9K111KSamir28
RU Russia#45658,11240K rec.—#175Самир127
SY Syria#12426,85029K rec.—1Samir47
EG Egypt#22423,75039K rec.—listedSamir163
DZ Algeria#5718,67224K rec.——Samir98
TR Türkiye—17,62919K rec.——Samir36
FR France—17,190△863 rec.1 in 3.9K17KSameer119
MA Morocco#9015,50317K rec.——Samir97
US United States—15,481156K rec.1 in 21K15KSamir310
KG Kyrgyzstan#22714,960131 rec.——Samir15
GB United Kingdom#95814,14511K rec.—3Samir126

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi502K70%
  • English45K6%
  • Arabic36K5%
  • Urdu34K5%
  • 25K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi502,03970%
English44,9896%
Arabic36,3675%
Urdu33,7725%
25,3484%

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◐

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

  • Finnish given name894 records spelled Sameer4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Śämèéř, Sameèr

48 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.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K1900192019401960198020003.7K · 1993

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Sameer in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
18996
19001
19111
19121
19141
19162
19171
19182
19191
192014
19219
19225
192336
192420
19259
19264
19275
19282
19295
19305
19319
193210
193310
193417
193513
19368
193725
193823
193920
194026
194138
194243
194335
194443
194540
194631
194764
194842
194964
195086
195176
195293
195385
1954107
1955123
1956127
1957143
1958133
1959190
1960184
1961185
1962243
1963241
1964288
1965279
1966313
1967375
1968441
1969462
1970548
1971547
1972740
1973764
1974830
1975888
19761,062
1977966
19781,067
19791,033
19801,050
19811,184
19821,485
19831,575
19841,823
19851,863
19861,854
19872,137
19882,156
19892,414
19902,744
19913,053
19923,193
19933,710
19943,496
19953,306
19961,920
19971,973
19981,398
1999145
20005
20016
20022
200879
20092
201056
201113
201219
201333
2014258
2015127
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 101 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Sameer Makarius, b. 1924Sameer Ahmad Ash-Shareef, b. 1956Sameer Farahat, b. 1965Sameer Singh, b. 1970Sameer Sain, b. 1971Sameer Bhujbal, b. 1973Sameer Meghe, b. 1978Sameer Zuberi, b. 1979Sameer Verma, b. 1994Sameer Lakhani, b. 2005

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 54 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Sameer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—35K#389
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—6.4K#832
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.7K#3,606
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—546#2,594
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—376#11,395
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020305#69,365
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020198—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—194#4,900
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—141#4,243
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010112#147,253
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—107#15,018
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—92#1,513

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 2026-09-12 data build · 419 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sameer?
We estimate roughly 169 thousand people bear Sameer (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Sameer have the most bearers?
Sameer is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled samir.
How common is Sameer compared with other names?
In India, Sameer is the 257th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Sameer mean?
Recorded meaning: A male given name from Sanskrit.
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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, “Sameer” — the 257th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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