Somhwang
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Somhwang is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 2.7Kas สมหวัง(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 537Kas Somwang
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.2Mfew recordsas Somvang
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 Somhwang itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 named สมหวัง, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Laos, est., as Somvang
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Somvang in US United States, GB United Kingdom, LA Laos and 1 more, สมหวัง in TH Thailand, Somwong in SE Sweden and Somwang in NO Norway.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Somhwang 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #455 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | register #176,283 | สมหวัง | 88 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Somvang | 15 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 471K | — | Somvang | 1 |
| US United States | — | 133as Somvang | 1 in 2.5M | 74 | Somvang | 43 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Somvang | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19as Somwang | 1 in 537K | 19 | Somwong | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 595K | 16 | Somwang | 3 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Somhwang a male or female name?
- Somhwang 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 Somhwang have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named สมหวัง in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Somhwang?
- In the United States, the national register counted 133 people named Somvang in 2020, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
- How common is Somhwang compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Somhwang is the 455th most common given name of 488,147 given names 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/somhwangThe 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, “Somhwang” — the 455th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.