Sihombing
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sihˈombiŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sihombing is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 80K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈95,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sihombing 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #133 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | listed | Sihombing | 172 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Sihombing | 17 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | listed | Sihombing | 78 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Sihombing | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Sihombing | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 500K | — | Sihombing | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #38,098 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Sihombing?
- A machine transcription gives /sihˈombiŋ/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Sihombing have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 95 thousand people named Sihombing in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sihombing.
- How common is the name Sihombing?
- In Finland, the national register counted 30 people named Sihombing, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
- How common is Sihombing compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Sihombing is the 133rd most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sihombingThe 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, “Sihombing” — the 133rd most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.