Řîm
surname · Latin script
Řîm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In South Korea it is the 73rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: ‘White antelope’. Ruqayya ® ‘Ascent’, ‘progress’, or ‘spell’, ‘charm’; the name of one of Muhammad’s daughters, -.
- USUnited States1 in 9Kas Lim(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea1 in 1.1Mas 림
- GYGuyana1 in 8.2Kas Lim
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Řîm itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
37,021 named Lim, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana, as Lim
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, KR South Korea, NL Netherlands.
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)‘White antelope’. Ruqayya ® ‘Ascent’, ‘progress’, or ‘spell’, ‘charm’; the name of one of Muhammad’s daughters, -
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Řîm 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 | — | 37,021as Lim | 1 in 9K | 40K | Lim | 288 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,381as Lim | 1 in 89K | 2.4K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 531as Lim | 1 in 33K | 531 | Lim | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 449as Lim | 1 in 19K | 449 | — | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 340as Lim | 1 in 113K | 185 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 314as Lim | 1 in 18K | 314 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 192as Lim | 1 in 28K | 534 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 91as Lim | 1 in 8.2K | 91 | — | — |
| KR South Korea | #73 | 47as 림 | 1 in 1.1M | 47 | Lim | 233 |
37,021 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Řîm mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘White antelope’. Ruqayya ® ‘Ascent’, ‘progress’, or ‘spell’, ‘charm’; the name of one of Muhammad’s daughters, - Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A Dictionary of Muslim Names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Řîm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Lim, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Řîm most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Řîm itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 8.2 thousand people named Lim.
- How common is the name Řîm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,021 people named Lim in 2010, about 1 in 9.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Řîm compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Řîm is the 73rd most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%99%C3%AEmThe 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, “Řîm” — the 73rd most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.