Kiếm
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sword (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kiếm is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 624 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- NLNetherlands1 in 332K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 408K
- USUnited States1 in 533K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 332K (inferred from the name graph)
624 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kiem 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)sword
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kiếm 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 | 624 | 1 in 533K | 356 | Kiem | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | 52 | 1 in 332K | 27 | Kiem | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 25 | 1 in 408K | 25 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
624 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kiếm mean, and where does it come from?
- sword Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kiếm a male or female name?
- Kiếm 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 Kiếm?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 624 people named Kiếm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiem. After it come Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kiếm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kiếm is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 332 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kiếm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 624 people named Kiếm in 2020, about 1 in 533 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kiếm?
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/ki%E1%BA%BFmThe 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, “Kiếm” — ranked 17586th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.