Cognomen שומי (Shumi 
, שומי 
) , in all the world, is quite a common last name. The last name שומי is habitual in Ethiopia, where it is quite a rare surname, Bangladesh, and Oman. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and South Africa. More prevalently, שומי is the forename as well as the last name.