Sémih

given name · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 18K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 56K
  • SESweden1 in 96K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

959 people

Record sources
138 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

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 Semih in NL Netherlands, US United States.

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 Turkish

Cömert, eli açık.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Sémih 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 Sémih is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands9591 in 18K959Semih3
US United States2181 in 1.5M218Semih6
SE Sweden1061 in 96K106——
DK Denmark1041 in 56K104——
PL Poland601 in 638K60——
FI Finland221 in 253K57——
LV Latvia51 in 376K5——

959 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Sémih is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Turkish, Arabic, Chinese

    Also written Semih, S'Emih, Şemih, Sèmih, Sémîh

  • German given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Semih, S'Emih, 'Semih, Śémíh

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Netherlands, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Semih, Sêmîh

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Italy, United States

    Also written Semih

  • Korean given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Semih

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 Sémih 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 Sémih a male or female name?
Sémih 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 Sémih have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 959 people named Sémih, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled semih.
Where is Sémih most common?
Sémih is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Sémih?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 959 people named Sémih, about 1 in 18 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, “Sémih”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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