Šumer
surname · Latin script
Šumer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 96K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 127K
- NLNetherlands1 in 254K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 96K (inferred from the name graph)
1,343 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sumer 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)
기원전 3000년경에 수메르 인이 살던, 메소포타미아(Mesopotamia) 남부의 땅 이름. 오늘날의 이라크 지방.
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Šumer 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 | 1,343 | 1 in 987K | 1.3K | Sumer | 5 |
| US United States | 175 | 1 in 1.9M | 1.2K | Sumer | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 68 | 1 in 254K | 68 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 66 | 1 in 127K | 66 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 22 | 1 in 96K | 22 | Šumer | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 20 | 1 in 586K | 20 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
1,343 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anita Šumerb. 1984SIslovene baker, author and blogger
- Suzana ŠumerSIresearcher
- Miran ŠumerSIresearcher
- Taja Tijana ŠumerSIresearcher
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 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Šumer have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Šumer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sumer.
- Where is Šumer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šumer is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 96 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šumer?
- In India, the national register counted 1,343 people named Šumer, about 1 in 987 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šumer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1umerThe 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, “Šumer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.