Sawmya Surname

4,532,898th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 19 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Sri Lanka

Sawmya Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Sawmya Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India161:47,941,586492,263
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Sri Lanka11:20,808,56018,521
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Sawmya (198) may also be a first name.

Sawmya Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sawmya Come From? nationality or country of origin

Sawmya (Hindi: सौम्या) is found most in India. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sawmya? popularity and diffusion

The last name Sawmya is the 4,532,898th most common last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 383,555,048 people. This last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 95 percent of Sawmya reside; 95 percent reside in South Asia and 89 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Sawmya is also the 644,447th most commonly used first name internationally. It is borne by 198 people.

The surname Sawmya is most commonly held in India, where it is borne by 16 people, or 1 in 47,941,586. In India Sawmya is mostly found in: Telangana, where 75 percent live, Andhra Pradesh, where 6 percent live and Delhi, where 6 percent live. Besides India Sawmya is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Bangladesh, where 5 percent live and Sri Lanka, where 5 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Sowmya831,585/
Sawmia831/
Sawmiea774/
Showmya771/
Sabmaiya711/
Sowmia6712/
Sowmyo673/
Sovmya671/
Zawmyo671/
Sowmmiah571/
Cawmeo500/
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Sawmya Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Sawmya in the Hindi language
सौम्याsaumya-

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sawmya
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