Warsame
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The bringer of good news; one truly needed (A Handbook of African Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: SSA, 2021
/waɾsɑmɛ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Warsame is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Somalia than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common surname.
- NONorway1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 9.8K
- FIFinland1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Somalia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 485 (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Warsame
- Swahili:/waɾsɑmɛ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The bringer of good news; one truly needed
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Handbook of African Names
Where the surname Warsame is found
(measured from records)Warsame counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mohamed Ibrahim Warsameb. 1943SOSomali poet and songwriter
- Saado Ali Warsameb. 1950SOSomali singer-songwriter and politician (died. 2014)
- Yasmin Warsameb. 1976SOSomali-Canadian model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Warsame mean, and where does it come from?
- The bringer of good news; one truly needed Recorded by A Handbook of African Names.
- How do you pronounce Warsame?
- In Swahili /waɾsɑmɛ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Warsame?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Warsame in Somalia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled warsame. After it come Kenya, United States, Sweden and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Warsame?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,293 people named Warsame in 2010, about 1 in 257 thousand residents.
- How common is Warsame compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Warsame is the 18th most common surname of 1,614 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/warsameThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Warsame” — ranked 32nd in Somalia (Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.