The name has most likely been made as a Norwegian language adapted variation based on the Sami town of Sombio (or Sompio) in the Kemi region of north Finland. The name has probably also risen from the personal male name like Sompia, Sompi, Sombie, Sombe, Sombby, Sombi, Sumby and Sobbe. The name has been used as a family name written as Sombio, Sompio, Sombi and Somby.
Somby is the most common form today. It occurs basically in the northern Sami communities of Kautokeino and Karasjok on the Norwegian side of the border, but also in other northern-Scandinavian regions. The ancestor of the Somby family is Oloff Persson Sombio, registered in Kautokeino from 1697 to 1707.
There is a concentration of Sumby in and around Sunderland in the UK, the earliest recorded Sumby being a resident of the Parish of Bishopwearmouth in the mid 19th century. Since then the name can be found scattered throughout the UK, North America and Australia.
Somby is a common Northern Sami surname. The name has most likely been made as a Norwegian language adapted variation based on the Sami town of Sombio...
Mons Aslaksen Somby (14 February 1825 – 14 October 1854) was one of the leaders of the Sami rioters that attacked several Norwegian shops during the Kautokeino...
SomBy is a Sámi rock band from the Finnish side of Sápmi that sings in Northern Sámi. The band was founded in Vuotso in 2004. At that point in time, the...
Niillas Somby (formally known as Nils Somby) is a Sami political rights activist, journalist and photographer. He was one of seven hunger strikers during...
Anatomical Institute at the University of Oslo, including the skeletons of Mons Somby and Aslak Hætta. The skeletons were repatriated in 1997. The Sámi attempt...
Liv Inger Somby (born 1962) is a Sámi educator, writer, and journalist. She specializes in indigenous journalism which she teaches at the Sámi University...
about Niillas Somby, a Sami man who retraces his family ancestry as he searches for the head of his ancestor, Mons Somby. Mons Aslaksen Somby and Aslak Jakobsen...
who killed two of the rebels in the process. Two of the leaders, Mons Somby and Aslak Hætta, were later executed by the Norwegian government. The incident...
Saari mixes some elements of the old-style joiking with new sounds. Ánde Somby is a traditional joik artist and a research scholar at the Faculty of Law...
guitars, computers and synthesizers and the famous Sami ethnic yoiker Ánde Somby on vocals and yoik (or joik, a type of traditional chanting or singing)...
revolt in Guovdageaidnu, all men except the two leaders Aslak Hætta and Mons Somby (who were beheaded in Alta) ended up in Akershus Fortress – the women were...
with the Winged Ones is a polyphonic sound project by Ánde Somby. In the recording, Somby performs yoiking, the ancient chanting practise of the Sámi...
Siida of North America, Toronto, Canada), interview. July, 1995/Nov., 2007. Somby, Ande. http://somban.com/nealg06.html Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback...
online available from the ethnopoetics website curated by Jerome Rothenberg. Somby, Ánde (1995). "Joik and the theory of knowledge". Archived from the original...
H. Sæther 2011–2015: Anne Toril Eriksen Balto 2015–present: Svein Atle Somby (Ap) The municipality is situated along the upper river basin of the Deatnu...
Christina Lajler, teacher at the nomad school Olle Sarri – Olle Anne Biret Somby – Sanna Anders Berg – Scientist at the racial biology institute Katarina...
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