Sëmë

surname · Latin script

Sëmë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 10K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 258K
  • USUnited States1 in 875K

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)

380 people, 2010

Sources
6 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Seme in 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sëmë 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 Sëmë is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3801 in 875K380Seme6
SI Slovenia2021 in 10K202—1
NL Netherlands671 in 258K67—1
AR Argentina471 in 968K47——
ES Spain331 in 1.5M33——
BE Belgium131 in 902K13—1

380 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sëmë 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

In which country does Sëmë have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 380 people named Sëmë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seme.
Where is Sëmë most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sëmë is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sëmë?
In the United States, the national register counted 380 people named Sëmë in 2010, about 1 in 875 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, “Sëmë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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