Semo
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/sɛmoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Semo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 44K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 122K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Semo 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Semo | 25 |
| SY Syria | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Semo | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Semo | 14 |
| US United States | 356 | 1 in 934K | 406 | Semo | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Semo | 21 |
| YE Yemen | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Semo | 3 |
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. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Semo is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, first-person singular present indicative of semar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, a male given name, equivalent to English Simon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tet, flight (the act of flying)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, seed, collectively
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vec, stupid, foolish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, an ancient god
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Enrique Semob. 1930MXMexican historian
- Marc Semob. 1950FRFrench journalist
- Igor Semob. 1960FRFrench politician
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 406 | #54,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 356 | #57,234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 348 | #55,237 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Semo?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛmoʊ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Semo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Semo in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled semo.
- How common is the name Semo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 356 people named Semo in 2010, about 1 in 934 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Semo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/semoThe 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, “Semo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.