Shamá
surname · Latin script
Shamá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 150K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 193K
- USUnited States1 in 256K
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
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)
1,299 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shama in US United States.
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.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Nordic Names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shamá 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 | 1,299 | 1 in 256K | 1.2K | Shama | 18 |
| ES Spain | 66 | 1 in 758K | 66 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 53 | 1 in 193K | 53 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 39 | 1 in 150K | 39 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 32 | 1 in 540K | 32 | — | 2 |
1,299 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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
- In which country does Shamá have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Shamá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shama.
- Where is Shamá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shamá is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 150 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shamá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,299 people named Shamá in 2020, about 1 in 256 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shamá?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sham%C3%A1The 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, “Shamá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.