Some
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/some/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Some is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Côte d’Ivoire. Recorded meaning: $TI s. (Cat ; RS) ; Somfa (17 A I 159).
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)$TI s. (Cat ; RS) ; Somfa (17 A I 159).
Cited for this meaning 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Some counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 486 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 234 | — |
| US United States | — | 227 | — |
| IN India | — | 134 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 30 | — |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Some 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 kr, other sharp instrument in search of a thorn, or
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In Galician, third-person singular present indicative of sumir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A certain number, at least two.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of そめ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, vocative singular of som
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of somar:
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)- Robert Someb. 1542GBEnglish academic
- Sigurd Someb. 1889NONorwegian publisher
- Belouis Someb. 1959GBBritish musician
- Surajit SomeINresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-4586-6062)
- Évariste SoméBFBurkinabe soldier
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 486 | #1,006 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 234 | #14,687 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 234 | #14,641 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 227 | #87,947 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 150 | #2,211 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 145 | #119,508 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 134 | #23,340 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 30 | #148,949 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Some mean, and where does it come from?
- $TI s. (Cat ; RS) ; Somfa (17 A I 159). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Some?
- In Swahili /some/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Some have the most bearers?
- Some is most frequently recorded in Côte d’Ivoire.
What do you want to know about Some?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/someThe 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, “Some”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.