Somai
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Somai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 991K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 3.7M
- NGNigeria≈1 in 5.3M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 991K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Somai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Somai | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 991K | — | Somai | 8 |
| US United States | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 32M | 131 | Somai | 65 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | 291 | — | 18 |
| DE Germany | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 21M | — | Somai | 18 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Somai | 15 |
| IL Israel | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Somai | 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Somai is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, second-person plural imperative of somar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, dative singular of soma
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In grt, time
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Somai a male or female name?
- Somai is a male 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.
- In which country does Somai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 people named Somai in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled somai.
- How common is the name Somai?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 people in Nigeria have Somai as their first given name, about 1 in 5.3 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Somai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/somaiThe 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, “Somai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.