Somara
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Somara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 503K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.9M
- BRBrazil1 in 1.9Kas Samara
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 Somara itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 503K (inferred from the name graph)
111,487 named Samara, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
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)
Somara 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 111,487as Samara | 1 in 1.9K | 111K | — | — |
| US United States | 15,524as Samara | 1 in 21K | 15K | Somara | 70 |
| ES Spain | 5,673as Samara | 1 in 8.8K | 5.7K | — | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | 5,670as Samara | 1 in 3K | 5.7K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 111as Samara | 1 in 92K | 111 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 18as Samara | 1 in 42K | 18 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 190 | Somara | 5 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 503K | 15 | — | 1 |
111,487 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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)
Somara is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of somar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine singular of somaro
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 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 181 | #39,915 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 99 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 98 | #41,610 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 96 | #22,977 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 71 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 69 | #42,703 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 49 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 13 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Somara a male or female name?
- Somara 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.
- In which country does Somara have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 111 thousand people named Samara, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Somara?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9 people named Somara, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Somara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/somaraThe 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, “Somara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.