Somers

loc · Latin script

Meaning: (i) son of Summer; (ii) from Irish Gaelic O Somachdin

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Somers is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Germany it is the 38th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.3Kas Sommer(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.6Kas Sommer
  • DEGermany≈1 in 1.7Kas Sommer

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 Somers 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈210,000 named Summers, est.

#948 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
509 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SummersLatin(measured from records)
জিমারBengali(measured from records)
ซมเมอรThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sommer in DE Germany, DK Denmark, CH Switzerland and 2 more, Summers in US United States, GB United Kingdom and Zimmer in CN China.

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)

(i) son of Summer; (ii) from Irish Gaelic O Somachdin.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Somers 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.

Where Somers is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈210,000 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Zimmer13
US United States#32456,953as Summers1 in 5.8K70KSummers509
DE Germany#38≈47,000 est.≈1 in 1.7KlistedSommer231
GB United Kingdom#337≈14,000 est.≈1 in 4.7K15KSummers256
BR Brazil—6,482as Zimmer1 in 33K6.5K—28
CH Switzerland#875,104as Sommer1 in 1.6K5.1KSommer109
DK Denmark#1094,351as Sommer1 in 1.3K4.4KSommer128
BE Belgium—4,3291 in 2.7K4.3KSommer107
AT Austria#89≈3,400 est.≈1 in 2.6K79Sommer95
LU Luxembourg—≈310 est.≈1 in 2K899—20

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 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Somers is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Netherlands

    Languages: German, Dutch, English

    Also written Soemers, Sömers

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Сомерс

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Šomers

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Somers 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 English, John, 1st Baron, English statesman;

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Suzanne, US actress

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Afrikaans, summery

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000George Somers, b. 1554John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, b. 1651Robert Somers Brookings, b. 1850Lady Henry Somerset, b. 1851Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, b. 1887Andy Summers, b. 1942Suzanne Somers, b. 1946Bart Somers, b. 1964Asa Somers, b. 1968Alex Somers, b. 1984

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 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Somers
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201011K#3,333
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200011K#3,115
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202010K#3,373
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20084.3K#145
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—4.1K#148
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20023K#2,594
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—32#15,636
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—24#173,031
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202421#35,283
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

What does the name Somers mean, and where does it come from?
(i) son of Summer; (ii) from Irish Gaelic O Somachdin. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Somers have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 215 thousand people named Summers in China, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Somers most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Somers is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Somers?
In Belgium, the national register counted 4,329 people named Somers in 2008, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
How common is Somers compared with other names?
In Germany, Somers is the 38th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Somers” — the 38th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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