Somali Submitted Surnames

Somali names are used in the country of Somalia in eastern Africa.

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Sound

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names missing pronunciations are excluded from results by default
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- example: *lee will match names which end with the sound lee
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- example: (s)(s)ra will match names which have two syllables and then the sound rah
(c) will match a consonant
(k) will match a consonant or consonant cluster
(v) will match a vowel
(p) will match a plosive or stop consonant
(f) will match a fricative consonant
(n) will match a nasal consonant
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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

ABDULLAHI Somali, Nigerian, Eastern African
From the given name ABDULLAHI.

ALHASSAN Arabic, Somali, Urdu
From the given name AL-HASAN.

AXMED Somali
Somali form of AHMED.

AZEEZ Arabic, Somali, Urdu
From the given name AZIZ.

DUALEH Somali
Meaning unknown.

ELLYAS Arabic, Somali, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Pashto, Punjabi, Indian (Muslim), Ethiopian, Ge'ez, Amharic, Filipino, Malay, Indonesian, Turkish
Form of ILYAS or ELIAS found in several languages.

HARUN Arabic, Somali, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name HARUN.

HAWA Arabic, Somali, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name HAWA.

IMAN Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Bengali, Punjabi, Somali, Indonesian, Malay
From the given name IMAN.

KAHINU Eastern African, Ge'ez, Amharic, Tigrinya, Swahili, Somali, Malagasy
Means "clergyman" in several Eastern African languages, originally denoting someone who was a clergyman (see the given name KAHINU).

KHALIF Somali
Somali form of KHALIFA.

MARIAM Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Somali, Amharic
From the given name MARYAM.

MAXAMED Somali
Somali form of MUHAMMAD.

MOHAMED Arabic, Somali
Variant transcription of MUHAMMAD.

MOSA Arabic, Somali, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Assamese, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, Dhivehi, Turkish
From the given name MUSA.

NOOR Arabic, Urdu, Somali, Bengali, Persian
Variant transcription of NUR.

NUUR Arabic, Somali
From the given name NUUR.

OMAR Arabic, Somali
Variant transcription of UMAR.

OSAS Somali
Variant of OSSAS

RAMADHAN Arabic, Somali, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Assamese, Punjabi, Pashto, Afghani, Sindhi, Balochi, Dhivehi, Filipino, Maranao, Maguindanao, Tausug, Malay, Indonesian, Swahili, Albanian, Kosovar
From the given name RAMADAN.

SAED Arabic, Somali, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Dhivehi
From the given name SA'ID.

SAID Arabic, Somali, Urdu
From the given name SA'ID.

TARIQ Arabic, Somali, Urdu
From the given name TARIQ.

TUMAS Arabic, Somali, Urdu
From the given name TUMAS.

YUSUF Arabic, Somali, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name YUSUF.

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