Sambor
Torn between Sambor and another name? Compare them side by side →
Meaning
a Slavic name made of sam, "alone", and bor, "to fight", which may have meant "one who fights alone"
How popular is Sambor around the world?
Sambor has no published row in the national Social Security baby-name files from 1880 through 2025. Those files omit name-and-sex counts below five, so there is no popularity curve to chart and no basis for saying the name was never used. In Poland, 10 boys named Sambor were born in 2025, the 330th most common name among boys that year.
Sambor is on the official records of Poland.
United States
no published row
Sambor has no published row in the national Social Security baby-name files from 1880 through 2025. Those files omit name-and-sex counts below five, so there is no popularity curve to chart and no basis for saying the name was never used.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Poland
1 in 25,000
In Poland, 10 boys named Sambor were born in 2025, the 330th most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)
England and Wales
last on record 2013
Sambor is not on the 2025 record for England and Wales, where spellings under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
The Sambor deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Sambor truly comes from, how it traveled, and what the published record can and cannot tell us, without inventing a curve. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Sambor fits with your family’s names and surname.
Does Sambor fit YOUR family?
nametree reads your family’s names and finds the ones that belong. Free, private, no ads.
Add Sambor to your family’s tree →