Am
loc · Latin script
Meaning: weak/uncertain stem, perhaps related to ahd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Am is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 76K
- DEGermany≈1 in 171K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
1,051 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled A-M in CA Canada, Aem in GB United Kingdom and Äm in TN Tunisia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weak/uncertain stem, perhaps related to ahd. amazzig 'diligent, troublesome'; possibly linked to AM- names and IRMIN.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Am 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 | 1,051 | 1 in 316K | 682 | Am | 179 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Aem | 76 |
| CA Canada | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | A-M | 50 |
| DE Germany | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Am | 83 |
| NL Netherlands | 420 | 1 in 41K | 256 | Am | 24 |
| BE Belgium | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 13 | Am | 15 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Äm | 6 |
1,051 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Am is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, the (+superlative)
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, acronym of Anwendungsmanagement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Akan, ana, amkra, Amona. Ak. F. nejtt younger brother or sister; oye m'am. "—oye m'Akyi-bd; oye m'am. kiima, he is the brotlwr or sister coming second or third after me. Ak. s. amod. mmara
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In cdo, to appoint to office Bh jit to deify, to canonize, to consecrate. Bh yi the record of deification. at aR to seal and lock up, (tiék-hiing)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Akan, la, v. n, the state of being armM; armonr; wokoo amiamn. thef/ went in full mfnmr
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Olav Åmb. 1918NOfeatured in the Norwegian Who's Who 1973
- Lukhanyo Amb. 1993ZArugby player
- Ahm KimKRnot in their usual nameresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 682 | #12,003 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 369 | #12,003 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 256 | #3,081 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 164 | #3,250 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Am come from?
- weak/uncertain stem, perhaps related to ahd. amazzig 'diligent, troublesome'; possibly linked to AM- names and IRMIN. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Am mean?
- Recorded meaning: weak/uncertain stem, perhaps related to ahd.
- In which country does Am have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Am, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled am.
- Where is Am most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Am is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Am?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,051 people named Am in 2020, about 1 in 316 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amThe 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, “Am”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.