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)

1. 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