Soom
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soom is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 65K
- FIFinland1 in 109K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, 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)
Soom 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Soom | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 129 | 1 in 65K | 129 | — | 1 |
| IN India | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 11M | 2.9K | Soom | 20 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Soom | 6 |
| EE Estonia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 101 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 414K | — | Soom | 4 |
| FI Finland | 51 | 1 in 109K | 51 | — | — |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the ee-stat-nimed 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)
Soom is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, to ask (for something), to beg. 2 . pt. a polite term used to intro duce a sentence. It means ‘p l e a s e , ’ ‘would y o u ...,’ ‘would you p l e a s e . ’ {see: ^.) WH91S to ask for money, to beg. o beggar. excuse me; to beg pardon. wy[fnuua5cu
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume II (ម-អ)
In stq, hem, seam (sewn edge of a garment)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, seam (of fabric)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, fast, fasting
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In li, seed, grain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, seam
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)
- Arnold Soomb. 1900EEEstonian historian (1900-1977)
- Leida Soomb. 1912EEEstonian opera singer, textile artist and actress (1912-2009)
- René Soomb. 1977EEEstonian opera singer (born 1977)
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 10 sources across 8 countries.
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
- How do you pronounce Soom?
- A machine transcription gives /səəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Soom have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 223 people named Soom in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soom.
- How common is the name Soom?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 129 people named Soom in 2024, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Soom?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soomThe 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, “Soom”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.