Songo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A kind of contemporary Cuban music originating in Havana
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries
/soᵑɡo/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Songo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 24Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 27Kfew records
- TGTogo≈1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A kind of contemporary Cuban music originating in Havana.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Songo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Songo | 8 |
| AO Angola | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Songo | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Songo | 17 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Songo | 17 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Songo | 18 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Songo | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | — | — |
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: 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)Songo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, lang., Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In men, instead of; thing of equal value, just return, recompense. Nga isohgoi yama lo. Ti so- ngo yama wu we
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In nap, first-person singular present indicative of èssere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Quechua, heart
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kmb, Postada
as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu
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)- Sam Songob. 1929Rhodesian artist
- Koa Songob. 1959CMpolitician in Cameroon
- Francis Songob. 1968MWMalawian association football player
- Tommy Songob. 1995LRLiberian association football player
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 72 | #80,790 |
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 Songo mean, and where does it come from?
- A kind of contemporary Cuban music originating in Havana. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Songo?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /soᵑɡo/; in Spanish /sonɡo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Songo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Songo in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled songo.
- How common is the name Songo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 72 people named Songo, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Songo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/songoThe 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, “Songo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.