Sama

Etymology

As a Catalan surname, this comes from Samà in Catalonia. As an Italian surname, it is a variant spelling of Samà. As a Hindi/Gujarati surname, it comes from सम्मा (sammā), the name of a tribe (see Samma). As an Asturian-Leonese surname, it comes from Sama in Asturias. As a Japanese surname, it comes from 狭い (“narrow”), written phonetically as 佐満.