Ím
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ím is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: sign, wink, password.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 254K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 57K
- USUnited States1 in 68K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
4,887 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ïm in DZ Algeria, TN Tunisia and Im in MA Morocco.
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)
sign, wink, password
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ím 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.
4,887 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: This page discusses the history and associations of surname clans in Macau, published by Revista Macau.; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Ím is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In uma, you, second person singular personal pronoun, nominative case
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, behold! see! lo!
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, dust, ashes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, soot
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(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ím mean, and where does it come from?
- sign, wink, password Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Ím have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Ím, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ím?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,887 people named Ím in 2010, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ím?
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/%C3%ADmThe 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, “Ím”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.