Išam
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Išam is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Arabic عِصَام (ʕiṣām, “security, pledge”). Išam is also written Исам in Cyrillic.
- DKDenmark1 in 37K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 136K
- SESweden1 in 18Kas Issam
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 Išam itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
2,058 named Issam
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Išam in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Issam 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)Arabic عِصَام (ʕiṣām, “security, pledge”)
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Išam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 2,058as Issam | 1 in 24K | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 1,221as Issam | 1 in 272K | 1.2K | Issam | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 557as Issam | 1 in 18K | 557 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 512as Issam | 1 in 34K | 512 | Issam | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 158 | 1 in 37K | 158 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 8as Issam | 1 in 44K | 8 | — | — |
2,058 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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 Išam mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic عِصَام (ʕiṣām, “security, pledge”) Recorded by Wiktionary and A Dictionary of Muslim Names and 1 other source.
- Is Išam a male or female name?
- Išam is a male 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Išam?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Issam, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Sweden, Netherlands and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Išam most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Išam is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Išam?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 158 people named Išam, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Išam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/i%C5%A1amThe 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, “Išam” — ranked 903rd in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.