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Around the world, เซม (Sem , เซม ) is a common unisex first name. The first name เซม is habitual in Namibia, where it is quite a common male name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a common largely male, but uncommonly feminine name, and Egypt, where it is quite a rare epicene name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, and Indonesia. Also, เซม is the last name as well as the forename.
เซม is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Shem , the Biblical figure, Son of Noah, Ancestor of Abraham, Genesis 5; Sem , the operatic character in the opera Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten and Sem , the operatic character in the opera Noé.