Somam Surname
Approximately 2,062 people bear this surname
Somam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambodia | 1,670 | 1:9,274 | 931 |
| Thailand | 296 | 1:238,643 | 40,474 |
| India | 66 | 1:11,622,203 | 212,115 |
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Somam (1,545) may also be a first name.
Somam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Somam Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Somam (Hindi: सोमम, Marathi: सोमाम) is found most frequently in Cambodia. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Somam? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 202,072nd most prevalent family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 3,534,212 people. This surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Somam are found; 95 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 81 percent are found in Khmer-Asia. Somam is also the 197,240th most commonly held first name on earth, held by 1,545 people.
This last name is most common in Cambodia, where it is borne by 1,670 people, or 1 in 9,274. In Cambodia Somam is most frequent in: Battambang Province, where 58 percent live, Siem Reap Province, where 19 percent live and Banteay Meanchey Province, where 7 percent live. Barring Cambodia it exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 14 percent live and India, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Somam Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Somam in the Marathi language | ||
| सोमाम | somama | 58.33 |
| सोमम | somama | 25 |
| सोनम | sonama | 16.67 |
| Somam in the Hindi language | ||
| सोमम | somama | 57.14 |
| सोमाम | somama | 28.57 |
| सोमं | somam | 14.29 |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Somam
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