Nāme

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nāme is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TGTogo≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 376K
  • BRBrazil1 in 554K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

382 people

Record sources
106 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

Togo, est.

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:

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)
recorded in Romanian

cf. tc. < pers. name carte". 1. Namescul, Stanciul, munt. 1654 (An C III 740). 2. Namian fam., act. 3. Namila, mold., 1474 (Hurm XVI- 83), pare mai curind legat de aceasta tema de cit de namild. Namei v. N5 mae 2.

Cited for this meaning 4

  • A Handbook of African Names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 38 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nāme 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 Nāme is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3821 in 554K382——
TG Togo≈150 est.≈1 in 58K1—3
AR Argentina1211 in 376K121——
ES Spain361 in 1.4M36—4
IN India61 in 221M6—6
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3—3

382 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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)

Nāme is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname45 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, Philippines, United States, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Name, Namë, Namé, Nâmê, Nãmê

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 Nāme 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

Is Nāme a male or female name?
Nāme 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.
In which country does Nāme have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 382 people named Nāme, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Nāme?
In Brazil, the national register counted 382 people named Nāme, about 1 in 554 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, “Nāme”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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