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Worldwide, شيم (Cem , Shem , Shim ) is a common primarily male, but very infrequently female given name. The given name شيم is characteristic of Turkey, where it is quite a common male name, Saint Lucia, and Reunion, where it is quite a common feminine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Turkey, India, and Germany. Much less frequently, شيم is the last name as well as the forename.
شيم is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Cem , the operatic character in the opera Die Jagd, Die Jagd (Oper).