Mâm

given name · Latin script

Meaning: food tray

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mâm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 170K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 370K
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M

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)

899 people, 2020

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 170K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mam in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan.

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)

food tray

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mâm 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.

Where Mâm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8991 in 370K953Mam11
SE Sweden601 in 170K60—1
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——
IN India——260Mam5
PK Pakistan———Mam3

899 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mâm is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Senegal

    Also written Mam, Mam', M'Am, Ma'M, Mãm

  • English given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Afrikaans

    Also written Mam, Mắm, Màm, Mám, Mäm

5 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mâm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mâm mean, and where does it come from?
food tray Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Mâm a male or female name?
Mâm 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 Mâm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 899 people named Mâm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mam.
Where is Mâm most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mâm is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 170 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mâm?
In the United States, the national register counted 899 people named Mâm in 2020, about 1 in 370 thousand residents.

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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, “Mâm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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