Söm
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Söm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Kyrgyz сом (som) and Uzbek сўм (soʻm) (Cyrillic) / soʻm (Roman), both of which come from the Turkic root *som ("pure [gold]").
- INIndia1 in 68K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 82K
- HRCroatia1 in 101K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
19,645 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Som in IN India, US United States.
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)
From Kyrgyz сом (som) and Uzbek сўм (soʻm) (Cyrillic) / soʻm (Roman), both of which come from the Turkic root *som ("pure [gold]").
Sources 3
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Söm 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 | 19,645 | 1 in 68K | 20K | Som | 11 |
| US United States | 1,910 | 1 in 174K | 2.1K | Som | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 113 | 1 in 1.9M | 113 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 102 | 1 in 82K | 102 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 82 | 1 in 211K | 82 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 42 | 1 in 101K | 42 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | — | — |
19,645 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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)
Söm 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 Icelandic, inflection of samur (“the same (usually in negative expressions)”):
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vep, food
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, seam
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Söm mean, and where does it come from?
- From Kyrgyz сом (som) and Uzbek сўм (soʻm) (Cyrillic) / soʻm (Roman), both of which come from the Turkic root *som ("pure [gold]"). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Söm have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Söm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled som.
- Where is Söm most common?
- Söm is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 68 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Söm?
- In India, the national register counted 19,645 people named Söm, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B6mThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Söm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.