Sẵm
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sẵm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the United Arab Emirates it is the 93rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: ,2 Short form of )Samuel (or less frequently of )Samson), and of )Samantha.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 444(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 603
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 802
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sẵm itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #699 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 636 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 444 (inferred from the name graph)
≈800,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sam in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 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)
,2 Short form of )Samuel (or less frequently of )Samson), and of )Samantha.
Sources 9
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sẵm 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈800,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Sam | 93 |
| US United States | #331 | 121,443 | 1 in 2.7K | 112K | Sam | 636 |
| GB United Kingdom | #166 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 802 | 21 | Sam | 379 |
| NG Nigeria | #844 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Sam | 101 |
| AU Australia | #116 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 603 | 103 | Sam | 337 |
| HK Hong Kong | #109 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 444 | — | Sam | 92 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #93 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Sam | 128 |
| NZ New Zealand | #128 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 847 | — | Sam | 194 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,528as Samo | 1 in 832 | 2.5K | — | 13 |
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); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); SURS — resident population given names. 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 Sẵm mean, and where does it come from?
- ,2 Short form of )Samuel (or less frequently of )Samson), and of )Samantha. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 7 other sources.
- Is Sẵm a male or female name?
- Sẵm 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 Sẵm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 805 thousand people named Sẵm in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sam.
- How common is the name Sẵm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 121,443 people named Sẵm in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Sẵm compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Sẵm is the 93rd most common given name of 31,430 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%E1%BA%B5mThe 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, “Sẵm” — the 93rd most common given name in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.