Somalia, the country whose ISO 3166 three-letter code and IOC Olympic country code is "SOM"

The Som Tower, in San Francisco

School of Medicine, a medical school

Secret of Mana, a role-playing game for the NES console

Self-organizing map, a type of artificial neural network in machine learning

School of Management, a business school

Uzbekistani som, currency unit in Uzbekistan

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, an architectural firm

IBM System Object Model, an object-oriented shared library most widely used in OS/2

Simulation Object Model, a document describing a component within a High Level Architecture

Saskatchewan Order of Merit, a Canadian provincial award

Kyrgyzstani som, currency unit in Kyrgyzstan

As a three-letter acronym, SOM (or SoM) may have any of the following meanings:

School of Music, a music school

The Society of Magi, a magickal organization

Somerset Railroad, a rail carrier whose Association of American Railroads reporting mark is "SOM"

System Object Model (file format), an executable file format used by the HP-UX operating system for the PA-RISC platform

Start of Message (or Media), a Time Code signal used in the broadcasting industry

Seine-Oise-Marne culture, name given by archaeologists to an ancient culture in northern France

Soil Organic Matter, organic compounds within the mineral soil without living roots and animals

Som, Uttar Pradesh, a town in India

In the Soviet Union, speakers of Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek called the ruble the som, and this name appeared written on the back of banknotes. The word som (sometimes transliterated "sum" or "soum") means "pure" in Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uyghur and Uzbek, as well as in many other Turkic languages. The word implies "pure gold".