Shami
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Like the sun
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃemi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shami is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 61K(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 5.9K
- RWRwanda≈1 in 19K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
21,752 people
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Like the sun
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shami 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.
21,752 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Shami is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Damascus (Sham)
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Hindi, husband
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In Albanian, handkerchief
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)
- Yitzhaq Shamib. 1888ILHebrew writer (1888–1949)
- Mohammed Shamib. 1990INIndian cricketer
- Ihab Shamib. 1993ILIsraeli association football player
- Ziv ShamiILPh.D. Hebrew University 1998
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 22K | #567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 747 | #32,900 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 574 | #38,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 493 | #41,596 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 352 | #1,521 |
| SY Syria | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #348 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #954 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Shami mean, and where does it come from?
- Like the sun Recorded by The book of African names.
- In which country does Shami have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Shami, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shami.
- How common is the name Shami?
- In India, the national register counted 21,752 people named Shami, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Shami?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃemi/ (IPA) for Arabic.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shamiThe 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, “Shami”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.