Śhamś
surname · Latin script
Śhamś is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic شمس (šams, “sun”).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 209Kas Shamus
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Śhamś 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shams in PK Pakistan, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 2 more and Shamas in EG Egypt.
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)
Borrowed from Arabic شمس (šams, “sun”).
Sources 3
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Śhamś 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #226 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | listed | Shams | 84 |
| BD Bangladesh | #733 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Shams | 75 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Shamas | 9 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Shams | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,588as Shamus | 1 in 209K | 1.6K | Shams | 109 |
| SE Sweden | — | 436 | 1 in 23K | 436 | Shams | 8 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 Śhamś mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic شمس (šams, “sun”). Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Śhamś have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Śhamś in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shams.
- How common is the name Śhamś?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 436 people named Śhamś, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Śhamś compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Śhamś is the 226th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9Bham%C5%9BThe 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, “Śhamś” — the 226th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.