Sorum

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sorum is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Norwegian Sørum.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 414K◐
  • CACanada1 in 495K
  • AUAustralia1 in 505K

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Meaning & origin●

Borrowed from Norwegian Sørum.

Sources 1

Where in the world●

Where Sorum is recorded, by country
CountryShare of this name
US United States6,40577%
IN India6438%
GB United Kingdom1632%
CA Canada1382%
AU Australia1322%

≈7,481 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English7K85%
  • Hindi6348%
  • Norwegian1702%
  • Spanish1452%
  • Arabic481%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English6,99285%
Hindi6348%
Norwegian1702%
Spanish1452%
Arabic481%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Notable people with this name●

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Sorum
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000699#31,339
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020670#36,002
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010598#37,288
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—224#637
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—211#17,104
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—5#8,037
PG Papua New GuineaPNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022)—2#34
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 2026-09-03 data build · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sorum?
Our records include 7,481 bearers of Sorum across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Sorum have the most bearers?
Sorum is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What does the name Sorum mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Norwegian Sørum.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sorum”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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