Samoan

A word name, used to describe someone or something from The Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Oceania (and making up part of Polynesia), Samoan is additionally used as a surname and, much more rarely, as a given name, appearing in the US stats in 1989 and 1994, given to 5 and 6 girls in the two years. Its first appearance may have been inspired by the 1988 creation of the Samoa National Park in American Samoa.

The name Samoa is believed to come from a combination of two Samoan elements meaning "holy centre" or "sacred middle", though it could have also derived from the name of a local chieftain or an indigenous phrase meaning "place of the chicken", moa being the Samoan word for the bird.

Pronounced sa-MOH-an.

As of October 2026, Samoan ranked #13075 for girls in US births in 1994 SSA.