Somay Surname
Approximately 907 people bear this surname
Somay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 676 | 1:115,120 | 9,689 |
| India | 65 | 1:11,801,006 | 214,148 |
| Argentina | 28 | 1:1,526,550 | 84,030 |
| United States | 28 | 1:12,944,962 | 483,512 |
| Hungary | 25 | 1:392,651 | 27,081 |
| Belgium | 21 | 1:547,459 | 51,586 |
| England | 18 | 1:3,095,448 | 105,421 |
| Austria | 11 | 1:774,130 | 64,097 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| Romania | 5 | 1:4,015,574 | 58,306 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| Cambodia | 2 | 1:7,743,573 | 11,959 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
Somay (4,225) may also be a first name.
Somay Demographics
Average Somay Salary in
United States
$36,045 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Somay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Somay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Somay (Bengali: সোমায়, Hindi: सोमय, Marathi: सोमाय, Oriya: େସାମାୟ, Tibetan: སོ་མ་) is carried by more people in Turkey than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Somay click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Somay? popularity and diffusion
It is the 390,407th most frequently held surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 8,034,781 people. The last name Somay occurs predominantly in Asia, where 76 percent of Somay are found; 67 percent are found in West Asia and 66 percent are found in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 106,689th most frequently used first name on earth, borne by 4,225 people.
Somay is most frequently held in Turkey, where it is carried by 676 people, or 1 in 115,120. In Turkey Somay is mostly found in: Istanbul Province, where 23 percent live, Ankara Province, where 14 percent live and Sanliurfa Province, where 9 percent live. Excluding Turkey this last name occurs in 23 countries. It is also found in India, where 7 percent live and Argentina, where 3 percent live.
Somay Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Somay earn in different countries varies significantly. In South Africa they earn 46.52% less than the national average, earning R 127,080 per year and in United States they earn 16.46% less than the national average, earning $36,045 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Somay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Somay in the Tibetan language | ||
| སོ་མ་ | soma | - |
| Somay in the Bengali language | ||
| সোমায় | somaya | - |
| Somay in the Hindi language | ||
| सोमय | somaya | 57.14 |
| सोमाय | somaya | 21.43 |
| सोमया | somaya | 14.29 |
| सोम्य | somya | 7.14 |
| Somay in the Marathi language | ||
| सोमाय | somaya | 53.13 |
| सोमय | somaya | 43.75 |
| सोनाय | sonaya | 3.13 |
| Somay in the Oriya language | ||
| େସାମାୟ | esamaya | 50 |
| ସମାୟ | samaya | 23.08 |
| େସାମୟ | esamaya | 15.38 |
| େସାମଯ୍ | esamay | 3.85 |
| େସୗମଯ୍ର | esamayra | 3.85 |
| େସାମୟର | esamayara | 3.85 |
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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 Somay
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