Somov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səmɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Somov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 16Kas Сомов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 44Kas Сомов
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 96K
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 Somov 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 96K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 named Сомов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Сомов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 2 more.
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.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Somov 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Сомов | 140 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Сомов | 28 |
| BY Belarus | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Сомов | 17 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Сомов | 2 |
| CN China | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Сомов | 2 |
| PL Poland | 90 | 1 in 425K | 88 | Somov | 5 |
| BG Bulgaria | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Somov | 21 |
| MD Moldova | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Somov | 5 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Orest Somovb. 1793UAUkrainian writer (1793-1833)
- Osip Somovb. 1815RURussian mathematician (1815-1876)
- Andrej Ivanovič Somovb. 1830RURussian copperplate engraver and art historian (1830-1909)
- Pavel Somovb. 1852RURussian mathematician and physicist (1852-1919)
- Aleksandr Somovb. 1867RURussian art historian
- Konstantin Somovb. 1869RURussian artist (1869-1939)
- Mikhail Somovb. 1908RUSoviet ocenographer and polar explorer (1908–1973)
- Nikolai Somovb. 1910GESoviet association football player
- Vadim Somovb. 1951RURussian businessman
- Lev Somovb. 1964UASoviet and Ukrainian actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 88 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 88 | #32,879 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #397,391 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Somov?
- A machine transcription gives /səmɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Somov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Сомов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Somov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 90 people named Somov in 2026, about 1 in 425 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Somov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/somovThe 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, “Somov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.