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Samanta name meaning

Last Name
257
in the U.S.
in 2010
Girls
Boys

Meaning and Origin

What does the name Samanta mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.

Origin and Meaning of Samanta

User Submitted Origins

Spanish
27%
English
24%
Lithuanian
18%
Italian
15%
Jewish
3%
Portuguese
3%
Latvian
3%
Indian (Sanskrit)
3%
Albanian
3%

User Submitted Meanings

  1. A submission from California, U.S. says the name Samanta means "Beautiful".
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Wiktionary

From Vulgar Latin *sēmentia, from Latin sēmentis, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare Aromanian simintsã, Italian semenza, French semence, Portuguese semente, Spanish semencera.

  1. seed

Notable Persons Named Samanta

Notable Persons Named Samanta

Pathani Samant

Pathani was given the name Samanta Chandra Sekhar Harichandan Mahapatra on December 13th, 1835. He breathed his last breath on December 13th, 1904.

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Sammi Sanchez

Sammi Sanchez is a pop music and latin pop musician. Sammi was given the name Samanta Carissa Sanchez on January 28th, 1998 in San Diego.

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Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin is a writer. Samanta was born in 1978 in Buenos Aires.

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Samanta Tīna

Samanta Tīna is a pop music, dance-pop, and contemporary r&b singing. They have had major accomplishments since 2010. Samanta was given the name Samanta Poļakova on March 31st, 1989 in Tukums. Samanta is also known as Polakova and Samanta.

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Samanta Fabris

Samanta was born on February 8th, 1992.

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Samanta Karavella

Samanta Karavella is a pop music, dance music, rhythm, and blues musician. She has had major accomplishments since 2004. Samanta was born Samanta Karavella on May 10th, 1990 in Tirana. Samanta is also known as Samanta.

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Notable Persons With the Last Name Samanta

Notable Persons With the Last Name Samanta

Achyuta Samanta

Achyuta Samanta is a founder kiit university, kalinga institute of social sciences, kiit university, founderkiit university, and kalinga institute of social sciences(kiss). Achyuta was born on January 20th, 1965 in Kalarabanka , Cuttack, Odisha, India.

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Shakti Samanta

Shakti Samanta was a film director, film producer, founder "shakti films", and founder. Shakti was born on January 13th, 1926 in Bardhaman. He died on April 9th, 2009.

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Ashim Samanta

Ashim Samanta is an indian film director. Ashim was born on July 7th, 1954 in Mumbai, India.

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Satish Chandra Samanta

Satish Chandra Samanta was an indian independence movement activist, political leader, and indian independence movement. Satish was born on December 15th, 1900. He breathed his last breath on June 4th, 1983.

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Ethnicity Distribution

Ethnicity Samanta U.S.
  White 4.67% 64.26%
  African American 0.00% 11.96%
  Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander 89.49% 4.85%
  American Indian and Alaska Native 0.00% 0.69%
  Two or More Ethnicities 2.33% 1.76%
  Hispanic or Latino 2.72% 16.26%

Of Last Name Samanta

People with the last name Samanta are most frequently Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander

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Fun Facts about the name Samanta

  • How Popular is the name Samanta? Samanta is the 7,603rd most popular name of all time. As a last name Samanta was the 75,069th most popular name in 2010.
  • How many people with the first name Samanta have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2019, the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,750 babies born with the first name Samanta in the United States. That's more than enough people named Samanta to occupy the territory of Christmas Island (Australia) with an estimated population of 1,462 (as of June 30, 2010).
  • What year were 5 or more babies first named Samanta? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1972 when it was given as a first name to 5 new born babies.
  • What year had the most people named Samanta born? The highest recorded use of the first name Samanta was in 2005 with a total of 98 babies.
  • Random Samanta Factoid: According to the 1997 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the first name Samanta is not a popular baby girl's name in California. Imagine that, only 15 babies in California have the same name in 1997.
  • Weird things about the name Samanta: The name spelled backwards is Atnamas. A random rearrangement of the letters in the name (anagram) will give Atsaanm. How do you pronounce that?
  • How many people have the last name Samanta? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 257 people with the last name Samanta.
  • How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Samanta? Chances are, most people haven't met someone with Samanta as their last name since less than 1 person in 1.1m people have that last name. If you know one, consider yourself lucky!
  • Samanta name meaning

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