Som-O
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Som-O is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Recorded meaning: instruction, godmother. Som-O is also written ส้มโอ in Thai.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 240Kfew recordsas ส้มโอ
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 Som-O 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
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈290 named ส้มโอ, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Som-O in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled ส้มโอ in TH Thailand, Somor in IN India and ซุ้ม. in IL Israel.
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)instruction, godmother
Cited for this meaning 1
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Som-O 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.
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 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Som-O mean, and where does it come from?
- instruction, godmother Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names.
- Is Som-O a male or female name?
- Som-O is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Som-O?
- Mondonomo estimates about 293 people named ส้มโอ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Guyana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Som-O most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Som-O is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Som-O?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Som-O in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Som-O?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/som-oThe 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, “Som-O”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.