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The SOM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,498 17377 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 41 54940 0 1
Change since 1880 +1457 +37563 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 81 17152 0 5
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SOM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 341 9729 0.001 10
Massachusetts 213 4995 0.003 34
Washington 150 6157 0.003 25
Pennsylvania 92 19571 0.001 7
New York 70 32332 0.000 4
Top States for SOM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 38 5273 0.004 36
Massachusetts 213 4995 0.003 34
Washington 150 6157 0.003 25
Oregon 45 11858 0.001 13
Minnesota 58 16986 0.001 12

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SOM live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SOM represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SOM in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SOM by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SOM

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the SOM surname.

Ethnic distribution of SOM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 149 9.95
White (Caucasian) 86 5.74
White (Hispanic) 15 1
Asian/Pacific 1,246 83.18
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SOM surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

SOM is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of SOM in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of SOM.

Similar names to SOM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SOM.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SOM

The following words are slight variants of SOM that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.