Cằm
given name · Latin script
Cằm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Malay cam. From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, “to remember”).
- USUnited States1 in 50K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 55K
- FIFinland1 in 159K
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)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
6,632 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cam in US United States, 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)
- Malaycam(measured from records)
- Sanskrit[Term?](measured from records)
From Malay cam. From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, “to remember”).
Sources 6
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Welsh Surnames
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cằm 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 | 6,632 | 1 in 50K | 4.3K | Cam | 110 |
| SE Sweden | 186 | 1 in 55K | 186 | — | 8 |
| FI Finland | 35 | 1 in 159K | 127 | — | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 33 | 1 in 524K | 28 | Cam | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 32 | 1 in 183K | 86 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
6,632 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 Cằm mean, and where does it come from?
- From Malay cam. From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, “to remember”). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- Is Cằm a male or female name?
- Cằm is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Cằm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Cằm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cam.
- Where is Cằm most common?
- Cằm is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cằm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,632 people named Cằm in 2020, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%E1%BA%B1mThe 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, “Cằm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.