Ñăm
surname · Latin script
Ñăm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Sino-Vietnamese word from 南 (“south”). Compare also nôm/Nôm and nồm (as in gió nồm (“south(east) wind”)).
- USUnited States1 in 38K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 16K
- SESweden1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
8,645 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nam in US United States, NL Netherlands, HK Hong Kong and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sino-Vietnamese word from 南 (“south”). Compare also nôm/Nôm and nồm (as in gió nồm (“south(east) wind”)).
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ñăm counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8,645 | 1 in 38K | 6.6K | Nam | 335 |
| SE Sweden | — | 384 | 1 in 27K | 384 | — | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 104 | 1 in 368K | 93 | Nam | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 97 | 1 in 57K | 301 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 95 | 1 in 182K | 95 | Nam | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 50 | 1 in 117K | 50 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 22 | 1 in 16K | 22 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | #613 | — | — | — | Nam | 52 |
8,645 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ñăm mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese word from 南 (“south”). Compare also nôm/Nôm and nồm (as in gió nồm (“south(east) wind”)). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Ñăm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Ñăm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nam.
- Where is Ñăm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ñăm is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ñăm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,645 people named Ñăm in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Ñăm compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Ñăm is the 613th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1%C4%83mThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ñăm” — the 613th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.