Sầm
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sầm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Sino-Vietnamese word from 岑.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 905
- NONorway1 in 7.7K
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)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 905 (inferred from the name graph)
121,443 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sam 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(measured from records)
Sino-Vietnamese word from 岑.
Sources 1
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sầm 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.
121,443 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cen Wenbenb. 595CNnot in their usual namechancellor during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang
- Cen Shenb. 715CNnot in their usual namepoet
- Cen Chunxuanb. 1861CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
- 岑建勋b. 1952CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and film producer
- Sam Hou Faib. 1962CNMacau judge and politician, the 6th Chief Executive of Macau
- Shum Kwok Puib. 1970CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong footballer
- Harry Shum Jr.b. 1982CRnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and dancer (born 1982)
- Eliza Samb. 1984CACanadian actress
- Sham Tsz Kitb. 1987CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong political and human rights activist
- Lester Shumb. 1993USnot in their usual nameHong Kong social activist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sầm mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese word from 岑. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Sầm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 121 thousand people named Sầm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sam.
- Where is Sầm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sầm is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 905 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sầm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 121,443 people named Sầm in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 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%E1%BA%A7mThe 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, “Sầm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.