Chiem
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃiəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chiem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese Chiêm.
- USUnited States1 in 475K(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 55K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 105K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Vietnamese Chiêm.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chiem 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 55K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | 701 | 1 in 475K | 969 | Chiem | 181 |
| AU Australia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Chiem | 80 |
| CA Canada | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Chiem | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 559K | — | Chiem | 14 |
| NO Norway | 44 | 1 in 124K | 44 | — | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Chiem | 6 |
| GD Grenada | 1 | 1 in 113K | 1 | — | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)
Chiem is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, blood; complexion. fUflHflfi co agulated blood. CUflHgin (or: ginCUllH) hemorrhage. menstrual flow. nnflUlH to cough up blood. to vomit blood. tnpfJCUflH the blood streams out,* to bleed
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Galician, inflection of chiar:
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 969 | #26,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 701 | #32,750 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 631 | #34,038 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #28,497 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #222 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Chiem mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Vietnamese Chiêm. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Chiem?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃiəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Chiem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Chiem in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Chiem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 701 people named Chiem in 2010, about 1 in 475 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chiem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chiemThe 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, “Chiem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.