Samir

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Samir 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 French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: companion (in nightly conversation), entertainer (with stories, music etc.).

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

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sameer in FR France, SA Saudi Arabia, PK Pakistan and 1 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●

companion (in nightly conversation), entertainer (with stories, music etc.). See Saamir ,.L., entertainer. Comp. Saamir .l4, fruit-bearing

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Samir 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●

  • Hindi518K32%
  • French181K11%
  • 160K10%
  • Arabic146K9%
  • Portuguese140K9%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi518,40932%
French180,73011%
160,06710%
Arabic145,7789%
Portuguese139,8199%

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◐

Samir is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name280K records spelled Samir73 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Samír, Sàmir, Sãmïř, Sämîr, Sâmîr

  • French given name196K records spelled Samir18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Algeria, United States

    Languages: French, Romanian

    Also written Șamir, Samîr, Sămir, Śâmįř, Śămîŕ

  • a separate given name167K records spelled Samir8 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Samīr, Sāmīr, Samîr, Šāmīr, Sāmir

  • Vietnamese given name11K records spelled Samir9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, Algeria, United States

    Languages: Vietnamese, Khmer

    Also written Sämîr, Šâmîr, Šamîr, Šámír, Šämîr

  • Polish given name6.0K records spelled Samir16 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Şamir, Sámir, Ŝămîř, Šãmìř, Śǻmír

  • Finnish given name3.6K records spelled Samir12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, India, United States, Morocco

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ṩämīr, Sämïr, Samîr, Sämir, Sãmïr

  • Hungarian given name3.0K records spelled Samir7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, India, Hungary, United States

    Also written Sàmiř, Sãmiř, Śàmîŕ, Samír, Śámíŕ

55 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●

Samir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • ‘Companion in night talk’. Feminine forms: Samar, Samira. Sana’ 9 ‘Brilliance’, ‘radiance’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, Alternative spelling of Sameer.

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

  • In Swedish, Samir (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn bildat till samīr, sāmir ’kamrat, underhållare (vid nattliga samtal)’. Se även → Samer. En känd namnbärare är artisten Samir Badran (f. 1990) i den svenska musikduon Samir & Viktor.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Arabic, fruit-bearing, fruitful, productive

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, entertainer

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

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.

Over time●

02550751001920194019601980200098 · 1994

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Samir in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1919–2015
Yearrecords
19191
19221
19231
19251
19261
19292
19301
19312
19321
19341
19361
19373
19391
19402
19412
19426
19431
19442
19451
19461
19471
19481
19496
19505
19512
19522
19533
19547
19554
19567
19573
19585
19598
19605
19617
19627
19636
196411
196517
196616
196720
19689
196910
197019
197114
197223
197330
197424
197528
197619
197734
197834
197930
198031
198137
198247
198360
198464
198542
198648
198759
198847
198972
199079
199183
199286
199384
199498
199587
199637
199738
199818
19992
20083
20101
20132
20148
20155

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 78 years between 1919–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Samir Amin, b. 1931Samir Geagea, b. 1952Samir Rifai, b. 1966Samir Guesmi, b. 1967Sameer Soni, b. 1968Samir Javadzadeh, b. 1980Samir Handanovič, b. 1984Samir Nasri, b. 1987Samir Ujkani, b. 1988

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 112 sources across 60 countries.

Official registers attesting Samir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202417K#675
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#1,925
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20229.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—9.2K#1,802
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—8.7K#2,351
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5K#881
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—4.2K#447
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4K#697
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.1K#373
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20202.6K—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—2.2K#324
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2K#1,077

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,077 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

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

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