The SAMMS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	781	28700	0	3
United States (1880 census)	107	30198	0	2
Change since 1880	+674	+1498	+N/A	+1
Other Countries
Australia	28	40082	0	2
United Kingdom	225	15293	0	5

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SAMMS

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From name of parent

Ethnic distribution of SAMMS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	401	51.34
Black/African American	310	39.69
White (Hispanic)	30	3.84
Mixed Race	29	3.71
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SAMMS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to SAMMS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAMMS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.