Jam
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jam is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 479K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 24K
- LSLesotho≈1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jaem in PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom, BE Belgium and 2 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Jaem | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Jaem | 101 |
| US United States | — | 694 | 1 in 479K | 445 | Jam | 236 |
| FR France | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 110K | 25 | — | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Jaem | 73 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 1 | Jaem | 11 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Jam | 5 |
| LS Lesotho | #785 | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Jaem | 1 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Jam is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In trk-pro, 1 piece of dust 2 litter floating on the surface of water
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In trk-pro, large earthenware vessel
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In trk-pro, post station
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In sit-pro, itch
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In sit-pro, salt
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In English, A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kia Jamb. 1970USfilm producer
- Zhang Yub. 1982CNnot in their usual nameactor from China (1982- )
- Wang Xinb. 1985CNnot in their usual nameChinese badminton player
- Jam Hsiaob. 1987TWTaiwanese singer and actor
- Liu Xinb. 1990CNnot in their usual namefemale badminton player
- Li Xinb. 1991CNnot in their usual namefootballer
- He Xinb. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
- Wang Xinb. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese diver
- Wang Xinb. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese sport cyclist
- Yang Xinb. 1994CNnot in their usual nameassociation football player
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)
Attested in 38 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 445 | #16,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 349 | #62,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 249 | #16,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 209 | #88,685 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 169 | #99,214 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 6 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #159,600 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 694 people named Jam in 2020, about 1 in 479 thousand residents.
- How common is Jam compared with other names?
- In Lesotho, Jam is the 785th most common given name of 1,237 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Jam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Jam in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaem.
What do you want to know about Jam?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jamThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Jam” — the 785th most common given name in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.