Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic ?samad
‘everlasting’. As-Samad ‘the Everlasting’ is an epithet of
Allah (Qur’an 112: 2). As a personal name, this is normally found in
the combination ?Abd al-?Samad (Abdus-?Samad) ‘servant
of the Lord’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4