Hám
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hám is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse hamr, Proto-Germanic *hamaz, *hamô.
- NLNetherlands1 in 10K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea1 in 643as 함
- DEGermany≈1 in 10Kas Hamm
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hám itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
80,659 named 함, 2015
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hamm in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 1 more, 함 in KR South Korea, Ham in NL Netherlands and Hima in ID Indonesia.
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 Old Norse hamr, Proto-Germanic *hamaz, *hamô.
Sources 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hám 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #50 | 80,659as 함 | 1 in 643 | 86K | 함 | 137 |
| US United States | #726 | 26,726as Hamm | 1 in 12K | 27K | Hamm | 425 |
| DE Germany | #789 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Hamm | 145 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Hima | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | #979 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 4 | Hamm | 177 |
| CA Canada | #672 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Hamm | 145 |
| NL Netherlands | #139 | 1,705 | 1 in 10K | 1.7K | Ham | 104 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 796 | — | — |
80,659 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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; KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Hám is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, harness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kix, jump
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jiang Kanb. 1507not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 132547
- Bai Kannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 245909
- Zhou Kannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 336842
- Wei Kannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 260230
- Jiang Kannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 330305
- Jiang Kannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 361404
- Hong Kannot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 384913
- Yao Kannot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 385582
- Lu Kannot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 432102
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 2 sources across 1 country.
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
- What does the name Hám mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse hamr, Proto-Germanic *hamaz, *hamô. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 8 other sources.
- Is Hám a male or female name?
- Hám is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hám have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 81 thousand people named 함, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hám most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hám is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hám?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,705 people named Hám in 2007, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Hám compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Hám is the 50th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hám?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A1mThe 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, “Hám” — the 50th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.