Sommers
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Sommers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 11,706 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered throughout. see Summers .
- USUnited States1 in 28K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 30K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
11,706 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): scattered throughout. see Summers .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sommers is found
(measured from records)Sommers 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 | — | 11,706 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Sommers | 81 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 567 | 1 in 30K | 567 | Sommers | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 32 | 1 in 174K | 32 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
| CV Cape Verde | #878 | — | — | — | Sommers | 1 |
11,706 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)Sommers 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 Danish, genitive singular indefinite of sommer
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)- Christina Hoff Sommersb. 1950USAmerican author and philosopher (born 1950)
- Stephen Sommersb. 1962USAmerican film director and screenwriter
- Erik Sommersb. 1976USscreenwriter
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sommers mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered throughout. see Summers . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sommers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Sommers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sommers. After it come Netherlands, Finland, Norway and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sommers most common?
- Sommers is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 28 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sommers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,706 people named Sommers in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Sommers compared with other names?
- In Cape Verde, Sommers is the 878th most common surname of 2,258 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sommers?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sommersThe 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, “Sommers” — ranked 3050th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.