Koroma
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Koroma is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Sierra Leone it is the 7th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: unexplained.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 177K◐
- USUnited States1 in 192K
- SLSierra Leone1 in 142
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.1K ●
- Sources
- 180 ●
- 1 in 69K ◐
across 11 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Meaning & origin●
unexplained.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,733 | 8.7K rec. | 1 in 192K | 2.5K | Koroma | 180 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,316 | 914 rec. | — | — | Koroma | 86 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 947 | 0 rec. | — | 947 | Koroma | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 859 | 848 rec. | — | — | Koroma | 6 |
| EG Egypt | — | 490 | 501 rec. | — | — | Koroma | 7 |
| AU Australia | — | 424 | 404 rec. | — | — | Koroma | 38 |
| SL Sierra Leone | #7 | 366 | 620 rec. | — | 137 | Koroma | 35 |
| DE Germany | — | 186 | 185 rec. | — | — | Koroma | 38 |
| CA Canada | — | 143 | 135 rec. | — | — | Koroma | 30 |
| FI Finland | — | 81△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 69K | 81 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 70△ | 18 rec. | 1 in 78K | 70 | — | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 69△ | 20 rec. | 1 in 725K | 69 | — | 10 |
Roughly 1.7K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 192K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English13K50%
- Swahili3.8K14%
- French3.3K12%
- Arabic9724%
- Spanish8863%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 13,205 | 50% |
| Swahili | 3,849 | 14% |
| French | 3,276 | 12% |
| Arabic | 972 | 4% |
| Spanish | 886 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Koroma is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, coconut (still ripening; between unripe (dafu) and ripe (nazi))
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kr, s. owner of asses
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
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●
- Abdul Koromab. 1943SLSierra Leonean judge
- Abdul Karim Koromab. 1944SLSierra Leonean politician
- Francis Koromab. 1975SLSierra Leonean association football player
- Ernest Koromab. 1982SLSierra Leonean association football player
- Brima Koromab. 1984SLSierra Leonean footballer
- Ibrahim Koromab. 1989SLSierra Leonean footballer
- Omar Koromab. 1989GMGambian footballer
- C-Joeb. 1992SEnot in their usual nameSwedish-Sierra Leonean artist
- Josh Koromab. 1998GBEnglish association football player
- Alhassan Koromab. 2000SLSierra Leonean footballer
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 33 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Koroma?
- We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Koroma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Koroma have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.7 thousand people bear Koroma in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled koroma.
- How common is Koroma compared with other names?
- In Sierra Leone, Koroma is the 7th most common surname of 472 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Koroma mean?
- Recorded meaning: unexplained.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Koroma” — the 7th most common surname in Sierra Leone. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.