Songa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to press
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/soᵑga/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Songa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
1,157 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to press
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Songa 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.
1,157 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Songa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lua, to carve (as wood), cut, file the teeth, form or shape or make by cutting or carving, sharpen to a point.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In Xhosa, to roll up
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mqs, old woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In umb, whittle, pare. Songelci) v. a., helve
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In umb, pare
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
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)
- Carlo Songab. 1856ITItalian artist, 1856-1911
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3.2K | #1,074 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.2K | #4,901 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #389,043 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #164,936 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Songa mean, and where does it come from?
- to press Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Songa?
- A machine transcription gives /soᵑga/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Songa have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Songa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled songa.
- Where is Songa most common?
- Songa is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Songa?
- In India, the national register counted 1,157 people named Songa, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/songaThe 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, “Songa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.