Somey Surname
Approximately 134 people bear this surname
Somey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 40 | 1:19,176,635 | 286,670 |
| Tanzania | 36 | 1:1,470,600 | 46,994 |
| Indonesia | 24 | 1:5,510,383 | 253,014 |
| Benin | 15 | 1:689,040 | 39,432 |
| Pakistan | 4 | 1:44,660,971 | 115,884 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Cambodia | 2 | 1:7,743,573 | 11,959 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
Somey (227) may also be a first name.
Somey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Somey Come From? nationality or country of origin
Somey (Hindi: सोमेय, Marathi: सोमेय, Tibetan: སོ་མིད་) is held by more people in India than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Somey? popularity and diffusion
Somey is the 1,544,715th most frequently occurring surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 54,384,671 people. The surname Somey occurs mostly in Asia, where 54 percent of Somey are found; 33 percent are found in South Asia and 30 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 596,468th most frequent forename in the world. It is borne by 227 people.
It is most frequently used in India, where it is borne by 40 people, or 1 in 19,176,635. In India Somey is most common in: Gujarat, where 93 percent live, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where 3 percent live and Haryana, where 3 percent live. Without taking into account India Somey occurs in 14 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 27 percent live and Indonesia, where 18 percent live.
Somey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Somey has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name declined 62 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Somey Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Somey in the Tibetan language | ||
| སོ་མིད་ | somi | - |
| Somey in the Marathi language | ||
| सोमेय | someya | - |
| Somey in the Hindi language | ||
| सोमेय | someya | 50 |
| सोमी | somi | 50 |
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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 Somey
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