Chamé

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Chamé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Damascus (Sham).

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 178K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 897K
  • ESSpain1 in 7.1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

256 people

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 178K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chame in US United States, GB United Kingdom, ZA South Africa.

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)

Damascus (Sham)

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chamé 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.

Where Chamé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina2561 in 178K256——
BR Brazil2361 in 897K236—2
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7—2
US United States——listedChame39
GB United Kingdom———Chame15
ZA South Africa———Chame6

256 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chamé is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Chame

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Chame

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chamé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chamé mean, and where does it come from?
Damascus (Sham) Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
In which country does Chamé have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 256 people named Chamé, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Chamé most common?
Chamé is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 178 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Chamé?
In Argentina, the national register counted 256 people named Chamé, about 1 in 178 thousand residents.

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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, “Chamé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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