Håm

Name: Håm: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Håm is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse hamr, Proto-Germanic *hamaz, *hamô.

rarermore common

NLNetherlands1 in 10K(measured from records)
KRSouth Korea1 in 643as 함
DEGermany≈1 in 10Kas Hamm

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 Håm 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.

: South Korea (measured from records)
: 4 (measured from records)
Record sources: 425 (measured from records)
: 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

HammLatin

หม๊ะThai

හිමSinhala

ΑμGreek

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hamm in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 1 more, 함 in KR South Korea, Ham in NL Netherlands and Hima in ID Indonesia.

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

From Old Norse hamr, Proto-Germanic *hamaz, *hamô.

Cited for this meaning 10

Dictionary of American Family Names
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Wiktionary
Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Håm 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 Håm is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
KR South Korea	#50	80,659as 함	1 in 643	86K	함	137
US United States	#726	26,726as Hamm	1 in 12K	27K	Hamm	425
DE Germany	#789	≈7,900 est.	≈1 in 10K	—	Hamm	145
ID Indonesia	—	≈5,900 est.	≈1 in 46K	listed	Hima	58
GB United Kingdom	#979	≈3,900 est.	≈1 in 17K	4	Hamm	177
CA Canada	#672	≈3,200 est.	≈1 in 12K	1	Hamm	145
NL Netherlands	#139	1,705	1 in 10K	1.7K	Ham	104
AL Albania	—	≈1,100 est.	≈1 in 2.7K	796	—	—

80,659 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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; KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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).

Other names spelled this way

Håm is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate surname26 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, India, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Also written Ham, Hâm, Hàm, Ĥâm, Hãm
Spanish surname29 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Argentina, Brazil
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Also written Ham, Hàm, Hãm, Hâm, Häm
Polish surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Slovakia
Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak
Also written Ham, Hàm, Hâm, Hām
Malay surname11 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, Netherlands
Languages: Malay, Indonesian
Also written Ham, Hàm, Hăm, Ĥäm, Häm

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Håm is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In cim, to have
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

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

What does the name Håm mean, and where does it come from?: From Old Norse hamr, Proto-Germanic *hamaz, *hamô. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 8 other sources.
Is Håm a male or female name?: Håm 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 Håm have the most bearers?: In South Korea, the national register counted about 81 thousand people named 함, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Håm most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Håm is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Håm?: In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,705 people named Håm in 2007, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
How common is Håm compared with other names?: In South Korea, Håm is the 50th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A5m

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Håm” — the 50th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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