Alme
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/alme/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Alme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 1,316 people, counted by SSB. Recorded meaning: flank (of an animal), flank steak, loin (of pork).
- NONorway1 in 4.2K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 425K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,316 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Alme
- Portuguese:/alme/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Norwegian:/ɑ̂lmə/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Turkish:/aɫme/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)flank (of an animal), flank steak, loin (of pork)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Alme is found
(measured from records)Alme 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | — | 1,316 | 1 in 4.2K | 1.3K | Alme | 23 |
| US United States | — | 249 | 1 in 1.3M | 249 | Alme | 112 |
| IN India | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | 5 | Alme | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 847K | — | Alme | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 596K | — | Alme | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 24 | 1 in 425K | 24 | Alme | 7 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Alme | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #424 | — | — | — | Alme | 1 |
1,316 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Alme 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 Basque, flank (of an animal), flank steak, loin (of pork)
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of almus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alternative form of almah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of elm
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)- Gunnar Almeb. 1924NONorwegian painter and scenographer (1924-2000)
- Iselin Almeb. 1957NONorwegian singer and actress
- Øystein Almeb. 1960NONorwegian author
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alme mean, and where does it come from?
- flank (of an animal), flank steak, loin (of pork) Recorded by Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft).
- How do you pronounce Alme?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /alme/; in Norwegian /ɑ̂lmə/; in Turkish /aɫme/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Alme?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Alme, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alme. After it come United States, India, South Africa and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Alme most common?
- Alme is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Alme?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,316 people named Alme, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Alme compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Alme is the 424th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/almeThe 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, “Alme” — ranked 790th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.