Shyàm
surname · Latin script
Shyàm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In India it is the 83rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma).
- USUnited States1 in 2.7Kas Sam(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.9K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 5.8K
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 Shyàm 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #784 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
121,443 named Sam, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shyam in IN India, US United States, NL Netherlands and 2 more, Sham in SY Syria, PK Pakistan and Syam in KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates.
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)Borrowed from Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma).
Cited for this meaning 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shyàm 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 | — | 121,443as Sam | 1 in 2.7K | 112K | Shyam | 290 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Shyam | 35 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Sham | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11,277as Sam | 1 in 905 | 11K | Shyam | 14 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | Sham | 24 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #995 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Syam | 40 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Syam | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 47 | 1 in 368K | 11K | Shyam | 25 |
| IN India | #83 | — | — | 6.8K | Shyam | 259 |
121,443 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling sam. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 Shyàm mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Shyàm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 121 thousand people named Sam, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shyàm?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 47 people named Shyàm, about 1 in 368 thousand residents.
- How common is Shyàm compared with other names?
- In India, Shyàm is the 83rd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shy%C3%A0mThe 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, “Shyàm” — the 83rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.