Ľïm
given name · Latin script
Ľïm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Korean, including 임 (Im), 林 or 任; 림 (Rim), 林.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 90(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 97
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 977
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 498 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 90 (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lim in US United States, MY Malaysia, PH Philippines and 4 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)
From Korean, including 임 (Im), 林 or 任; 림 (Rim), 林.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ľïm 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #13 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 90 | 2.5K | Lim | 211 |
| CN China | — | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Lim | 66 |
| PH Philippines | #52 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 977 | — | Lim | 194 |
| SG Singapore | #2 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 97 | — | Lim | 236 |
| US United States | #848 | 37,021 | 1 in 9K | 40K | Lim | 498 |
| AU Australia | #98 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Lim | 251 |
| HK Hong Kong | #205 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Lim | 90 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity). 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 Ľïm mean, and where does it come from?
- From Korean, including 임 (Im), 林 or 任; 림 (Rim), 林. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Ľïm a male or female name?
- Ľïm is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ľïm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 362 thousand people named Ľïm in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lim.
- How common is the name Ľïm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,021 people named Ľïm in 2010, about 1 in 9.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Ľïm compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Ľïm is the 13th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ľïm?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%BE%C3%AFmThe 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, “Ľïm” — the 13th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.