Somalia

loc · Latin script

Meaning: republic, Africa

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Somalia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.4M

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.

United States (measured from records)

186 people, 2020

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Somália in BR Brazil.

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)

republic, Africa

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Somalia 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.

Where Somalia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1861 in 1.8M182—31
BR Brazil891 in 2.4M115Somália18
CO Colombia≈16 est.≈1 in 3.1M—Somalia13
ES Spain≈11 est.≈1 in 4.4M—Somalia6
IT Italy≈4 est.≈1 in 18Mlisted—1
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

186 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Somalia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Somalie, Somália

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Sòmàlià

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Somalie, Somàlià

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Somália, Sómalia

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Somalia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Somali, Cushitic/Somali: 'black, dark'

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In English, A country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa. Official name: Federal Republic of Somalia. Capital: Mogadishu.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, Somalia (a country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Somalia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020182#40,182
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—115#20,332
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—99#36,482
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202289—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—83#44,732
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)198065—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)197045—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199343—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)198024—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)197020—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199414—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199210—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Somalia mean, and where does it come from?
republic, Africa Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Somalia have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 186 people named Somalia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Somalia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Somalia is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Somalia?
In the United States, the national register counted 186 people named Somalia in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Somalia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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