Somani
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Somani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 723K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 774K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 68K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
1,713 people
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Somani 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 | 1,713 | 1 in 774K | 1.7K | Somani | 180 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 283K | — | Somani | 11 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 419K | — | Somani | 16 |
| US United States | 460 | 1 in 723K | 642 | Somani | 170 |
| CA Canada | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Somani | 48 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Somani | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Somani | 33 |
| SG Singapore | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Somani | 13 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Somani | 4 |
1,713 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 — 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jitu Somanib. 1959INMLA from Gujarat, India
- Parag Somanib. 1970TZbadminton player
- Anita SomaniUSAmerican politician
- Bhaskar K SomaniGBresearcher
- Riyaz SomaniGBresearcher
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.7K | #3,549 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 642 | #37,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 460 | #46,314 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 332 | #1,603 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 245 | #73,659 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Somani have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Somani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled somani.
- How common is the name Somani?
- In India, the national register counted 1,713 people named Somani, about 1 in 774 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/somaniThe 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, “Somani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.