The Soma surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 971 people carried this name — #25,459 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 303,000 people counted. That is up 13% from 861 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 223 people named Soma live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 130 people named Soma.
27 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Var.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
342 people named Soma are counted in Norway and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Soma in American newspapers,
1854–1944.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 623,487 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Soma.
- Solon 1,197 · U.S. census
- Solt 1,971 · U.S. census
- Soltani 779 · U.S. census
- Soltys 1,412 · U.S. census
- Soltysiak 359 · U.S. census
- Som 1,910 · U.S. census
- Somers 10,762 · U.S. census
- Somma 1,354 · U.S. census
- Sommer 11,662 · U.S. census
- Son 10,094 · U.S. census
- Sondag 415 · U.S. census
- Song 25,110 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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