Samet
About 150 men in Poland carry it, few enough that most Poles have never met one. The name is Turkish and means eternal, or self-sufficient.
Samet Pronunciation
Samet is pronounced SAH-met (/ˈsamɛt/).
What Samet means
Where Samet comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Samet is a Turkish name for boys. Its root is Arabic: as-Samad, one of the ninety-nine names of God. The word sits in the second verse of Surah Al-Ikhlas, a short chapter near the end of the Quran. There as-Samad names the divine as eternal and self-sufficient, the one whom all things need and who depends on nothing. That is a heavy word to hand a child.
Turkish wore it down to Samet.
The meaning came across with it: eternal, self-sufficient. The name stays common among Turkish speakers, from Turkey to the Balkans. Samet has no diminutives or pet forms. There is no softened version on the class register, only the full name a boy answers to. Its Polish gloss keeps the same two notes, wieczny and niezmienny, eternal and unchanging.
How many people are named Samet
1 in 139518 men in Poland is named Samet. 153 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2626 among male names.
Samet as a middle name
Samet is a first name for 153 men in Poland and a middle name for another 21, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1946th, between Salwator (21) and Seán (21).
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#1944 Rubén21
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#1945 Salwator21
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#1946 Samet21
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#1947 Seán21
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#1948 Shahid21