Sémaj
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sémaj is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: James reversed.
- USUnited States1 in 56K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 930Kfew records
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 700Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 207 (measured from records)
- 1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
5,892 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Semaj in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.
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)James reversed.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sémaj 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 | 5,892 | 1 in 56K | 4.5K | Semaj | 207 |
| PH Philippines | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 929K | — | Semaj | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Semaj | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 12 | Semaj | 24 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Semaj | 1 |
5,892 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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 Sémaj mean, and where does it come from?
- James reversed. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Sémaj a male or female name?
- Sémaj 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 Sémaj have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Sémaj, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled semaj.
- Where is Sémaj most common?
- Sémaj is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 56 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sémaj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,892 people named Sémaj in 2020, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A9majThe 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, “Sémaj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.