Sama
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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 28049th 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: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
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- English terms derived from Greek
- English terms derived from Hebrew
- English terms derived from Catalan
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Hindi
- English terms derived from Gujarati
- English terms derived from Asturian
- English terms derived from Leonese
- English terms derived from Japanese
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames