Sorn
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sorn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In the Bahamas it is the 35th most common surname. Recorded meaning: to impose upon another for food and lodging.
- USUnited States1 in 668K(measured from records)
- BSBahamas≈1 in 19K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 273K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bahamas, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
to impose upon another for food and lodging.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sorn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Sorn | 4 |
| US United States | — | 498 | 1 in 668K | 620 | Sorn | 139 |
| PL Poland | — | 102 | 1 in 375K | 53 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 991K | — | Sorn | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Sorn | 14 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 273K | — | Sorn | 2 |
| BS Bahamas | #35 | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Sorn | 3 |
| HR Croatia | — | 13 | 1 in 325K | 13 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Sorn is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gv, range, fireplace under boiler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, furnace, oven, kiln
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, dawdling, dilatory
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, furnace
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 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 620 | #38,417 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 498 | #43,369 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 452 | #44,738 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 53 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 53 | #48,469 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 49 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 49 | #50,766 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Sorn mean, and where does it come from?
- to impose upon another for food and lodging. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sorn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 600 people named Sorn in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sorn.
- How common is the name Sorn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 498 people named Sorn in 2010, about 1 in 668 thousand residents.
- How common is Sorn compared with other names?
- In the Bahamas, Sorn is the 35th most common surname of 3,175 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sornThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sorn” — the 35th most common surname in Bahamas. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.