Loumà
surname · Latin script
Loumà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 49K(inferred from the name graph)
- GAGabon≈1 in 72K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 88K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Louma in FR France, TN Tunisia, CM Cameroon and 2 more.
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
(measured from records)Jean-Marie Lava lou et Alain Ma sseron, tous deux français, inventèrent une grue révolutionnaire qui permit de faire des travellings sans aucun tremblement. Tous les réalisateurs l’ont utilisée depuis, notamment les Américains avec Spielberg. Il semble que le premier qui l’ait utilisée dans un film important soit Stanley Kubrick, dans Shining , tiré du roman de Stephen King. Les inventeurs prirent respectivement la fin et le début de leurs deux noms pour désigner le nouvel appareil.
Cited for this meaning 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Loumà 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Louma | 5 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Louma | 7 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 3 | — | — |
| TN Tunisia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Louma | 5 |
| FR France | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 906K | — | Louma | 73 |
| CZ Czechia | 55 | 1 in 195K | 55 | — | — |
| GA Gabon | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 3 | Louma | 5 |
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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 Loumà have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 463 people named Loumà in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled louma.
- How common is the name Loumà?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 55 people named Loumà, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loum%C3%A0The 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, “Loumà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.