Somma Surname
Approximately 17,534 people bear this surname
Somma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 9,236 | 1:6,622 | 865 |
| United States | 2,120 | 1:170,971 | 17,263 |
| Yemen | 1,734 | 1:15,240 | 1,727 |
| Burkina Faso | 1,003 | 1:18,297 | 1,315 |
| Thailand | 680 | 1:103,880 | 15,002 |
| Argentina | 653 | 1:65,457 | 5,599 |
| France | 330 | 1:201,281 | 31,299 |
| Uruguay | 325 | 1:10,559 | 1,187 |
| Brazil | 235 | 1:910,955 | 32,619 |
| Benin | 147 | 1:70,310 | 8,494 |
| Canada | 110 | 1:334,960 | 30,494 |
| England | 95 | 1:586,506 | 35,379 |
| India | 87 | 1:8,816,843 | 179,063 |
| Lebanon | 85 | 1:66,319 | 4,867 |
| Mauritius | 83 | 1:15,583 | 3,299 |
| Switzerland | 76 | 1:108,065 | 11,329 |
| Germany | 67 | 1:1,201,574 | 78,034 |
| Ivory Coast | 60 | 1:384,521 | 13,351 |
| South Africa | 49 | 1:1,105,667 | 65,349 |
| Austria | 35 | 1:243,298 | 28,936 |
| Iraq | 31 | 1:1,129,731 | 13,630 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Australia | 26 | 1:1,038,296 | 59,744 |
| Indonesia | 22 | 1:6,011,327 | 267,290 |
| Finland | 20 | 1:274,835 | 20,939 |
| Taiwan | 18 | 1:1,302,486 | 8,817 |
| Spain | 18 | 1:2,597,335 | 59,996 |
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| Belgium | 16 | 1:718,540 | 60,840 |
| Nigeria | 16 | 1:11,071,422 | 210,388 |
| Papua New Guinea | 14 | 1:582,408 | 70,330 |
| Chile | 14 | 1:1,258,320 | 22,898 |
| Netherlands | 13 | 1:1,299,014 | 73,030 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| Venezuela | 10 | 1:3,020,408 | 31,795 |
| Norway | 10 | 1:514,229 | 41,629 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 1:290,271 | 8,611 |
| Liechtenstein | 2 | 1:19,189 | 1,439 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 1:3,489,452 | 64,958 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Somma (1,712) may also be a first name.
Somma Demographics
Somma Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Somma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Somma Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Somma (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻮﻣﻪ, Hindi: सोम्मा, Marathi: सोमा, Russian: Сомма) has its highest incidence in Italy. It may appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Somma.
How Common Is The Last Name Somma? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 30,461st most frequent last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 415,624 people. Somma occurs predominantly in Europe, where 57 percent of Somma are found; 53 percent are found in Southwestern Europe and 53 percent are found in Italic Europe. Somma is also the 185,598th most common first name at a global level. It is borne by 1,712 people.
The surname is most frequent in Italy, where it is held by 9,236 people, or 1 in 6,622. In Italy Somma is most numerous in: Campania, where 73 percent reside, Apulia, where 7 percent reside and Lazio, where 6 percent reside. Excluding Italy Somma exists in 62 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 12 percent reside and Yemen, where 10 percent reside.
Somma Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Somma has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name expanded 212,000 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Somma Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Somma surname is predominantly Greek Orthodox (53%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those holding the Somma surname are 10.54% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 57.31% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Somma earn in different countries varies notably. In Italy they earn 9.69% more than the national average, earning €32,939 per year; in Norway they earn 2.64% less than the national average, earning 336,955 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 3.51% less than the national average, earning R 229,308 per year; in United States they earn 15.82% more than the national average, earning $49,976 USD per year and in Canada they earn 18.16% more than the national average, earning $58,705 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Somma Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Somma in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻮﻣﻪ | swmh | - |
| Somma in the Marathi language | ||
| सोमा | soma | - |
| Somma in the Hindi language | ||
| सोम्मा | som'ma | 96.33 |
| सोंमा | somma | 2.86 |
| सोम्या | somya | 0.41 |
| Somma in the Russian language | ||
| Сомма | somma | - |
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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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- 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 Somma
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