Šaman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: shaman (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Šaman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 362 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- NLNetherlands1 in 58K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 61K
- CZCzechia1 in 81K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
362 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)shaman
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šaman is found
(measured from records)Šaman 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 | 362 | 1 in 919K | 1K | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 296 | 1 in 58K | 296 | — | 1 |
| IN India | 197 | 1 in 6.7M | 197 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 193 | 1 in 61K | 224 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 161 | 1 in 282K | 161 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 132 | 1 in 81K | 133 | Šaman | 17 |
| NO Norway | 42 | 1 in 130K | 390 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 1 | 1 in 113K | 1 | — | — |
362 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šaman mean, and where does it come from?
- shaman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šaman?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 362 people named Šaman, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Netherlands, India, Belgium and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šaman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šaman is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šaman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 362 people named Šaman in 2010, about 1 in 919 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šaman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1amanThe 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, “Šaman” — ranked 8976th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.