Somma
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A volcanic caldera that has been partially filled by a new central cone
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsɑmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Somma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 35M(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 5.8K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 62K
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)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,354 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A volcanic caldera that has been partially filled by a new central cone.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Somma is read(measured from records)
Somma is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English46%
A volcanic caldera that has been partially filled by a new central cone.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Somma in Spanish.
- Italian18%
sum, amount
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. summus, local mais elevado; frequente em nomes compostos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Somma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,354 | 1 in 246K | 1.4K | Somma | 80 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 585 | 1 in 5.8K | 585 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 543 | 1 in 84K | 543 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 213 | 1 in 994K | 213 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 136 | 1 in 62K | 136 | Somma | 14 |
| FI Finland | — | 34 | 1 in 164K | 34 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | — | — |
| IT Italy | #509 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 35M | listed | Somma | 121 |
1,354 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: the xinhua-italian-manual register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Somma 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 French, third-person singular past historic of sommer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, sum, total
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdt, summer
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antonio Sommab. 1809ITItalian opera librettist (1809–1864)
- Ulderigo Sommab. 1875ITItalian economist (1875-1954)
- Bonaventura Sommab. 1893ITItalian composer (1893–1960)
- Ossi Sommab. 1926FIFinnish sculptor (1926-2020)
- Luciano Sommab. 1940ITItalian poet
- Sebastiano Sommab. 1960ITItalian actor
- Mario Sommab. 1963ITItalian footballer and manager (born 1963)
- Davide Sommab. 1985ZASouth African footballer
- Michele Sommab. 1995ITItalian footballer
- Maria Carla SommaITItalian medieval archaeologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,136 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,852 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,813 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 585 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 543 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 213 | #34,903 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 136 | #8,620 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 34 | #31,817 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #34,688 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Somma mean, and where does it come from?
- A volcanic caldera that has been partially filled by a new central cone. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Somma?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɑmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Somma have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Somma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled somma.
- Where is Somma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Somma is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Somma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,354 people named Somma in 2010, about 1 in 246 thousand residents.
- How common is Somma compared with other names?
- In Italy, Somma is the 509th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sommaThe 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, “Somma” — the 509th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.