Şomali
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Şomali is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 14M
- INIndia1 in 102M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
13 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şomali counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 13 | 1 in 102M | 13 | — | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Şomali | 10 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 182 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 115 | — | — |
13 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Şomali have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 13 people named Şomali, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Şomali most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Şomali is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Şomali?
- In India, the national register counted 13 people named Şomali, about 1 in 102 million residents.
What do you want to know about Şomali?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FomaliThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Şomali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.