Shoma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shoma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese しょうま (Shōma).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 12Kas Soma(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 16K
- HUHungary1 in 1.9Kas Soma
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shoma itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named Soma, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Soma in IN India, BD Bangladesh and Shuma in TZ Tanzania.
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)
Borrowed from Japanese しょうま (Shōma).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shoma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Shoma | 24 |
| BD Bangladesh | #676 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Soma | 31 |
| HU Hungary | — | 5,201as Soma | 1 in 1.9K | 5.2K | — | — |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Shuma | 5 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Shoma | 8 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Shoma | 5 |
| IN India | #477 | — | — | 2.3K | Soma | 163 |
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; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Shoma is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Shona, few, little (small in quantity)
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)
- Shōma Yamamotob. 1983JPJapanese actor
- Shoma Mizunagab. 1985JPJapanese association football player
- Shōma Satōb. 1989JPJapanese baseball player
- Shoma Unob. 1997JPJapanese figure skater
- Shōma Fujihirab. 1998JPJapanese baseball player
- Shoma Satob. 1998JPJapanese baseball player
- Shoma Takayoshib. 2000JPJapanese association football player
- Shoma Kanemurab. 2000JPJapanese baseball player
- Shoma Satob. 2001JPJapanese swimmer
- Shoma Maedab. 2002JPJapanese association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Shoma mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese しょうま (Shōma). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Shoma a male or female name?
- Shoma is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Shoma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Soma in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shoma?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 5,201 people named Soma in 2025, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Shoma compared with other names?
- In India, Shoma is the 477th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shoma?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shomaThe 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, “Shoma” — the 477th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.