Şaam
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Şaam is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Saam.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 101K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 246K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 282as Sam
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 Şaam 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
12,053 named Sam, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Saam in US United States, IN India, PK Pakistan.
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)Borrowed from German Saam.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Şaam 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 | 12,053as Sam | 1 in 28K | 112K | Saam | 16 |
| IN India | 6,773as Shyam | 1 in 196K | 6.8K | Saam | 22 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Saam | 10 |
| GY Guyana | 812as Sam | 1 in 924 | 812 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 360as Sam | 1 in 282 | 360 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 83 | 1 in 101K | 83 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 44as Sam | 1 in 124K | 2.4K | — | — |
12,053 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling sam. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Şaam mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Saam. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Şaam a male or female name?
- Şaam is a female 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 Şaam have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Sam, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Şaam most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Şaam is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Şaam?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 83 people named Şaam in 2024, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FaamThe 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, “Şaam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.