Şīm

surname · Latin script

Şīm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 34th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From the flower Rhodomyrtus tomentosa.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 55K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 21K
  • FIFinland1 in 94K

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)

6,047 people, 2010

Sources
372 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sim in US United States, SG Singapore, 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)

From the flower Rhodomyrtus tomentosa.

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Şīm 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.

Where Şīm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6,0471 in 55K6.4KSim372
BR Brazil—2831 in 748K283—2
PL Poland—2111 in 181K108—1
ES Spain—941 in 532K94—35
NL Netherlands—711 in 243K103Sim29
FI Finland—591 in 94K59—4
NO Norway—501 in 109K50—10
GY Guyana—361 in 21K36—3
SG Singapore#34———Sim175

6,047 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Şīm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Şīm mean, and where does it come from?
From the flower Rhodomyrtus tomentosa. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
In which country does Şīm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Şīm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sim.
Where is Şīm most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Şīm is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Şīm?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,047 people named Şīm in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
How common is Şīm compared with other names?
In Singapore, Şīm is the 34th most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Şīm” — the 34th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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