Chàm

loc · Latin script

Meaning: indigo (a dark bluish-purplish color)

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

Chàm is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Switzerland.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland
  • DEGermany
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Switzerland (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

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 Cham in CH Switzerland, IN India, DE Germany and 3 more.

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)

indigo (a dark bluish-purplish color)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chàm counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Chàm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland—33Cham2
IN India—53Cham4
DE Germany——Cham1
FR France—27Cham1
MY Malaysia——Cham13
US United States—1.5KCham31

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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

Chàm is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, United States

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Cham, Châm, C-Ham, Chấm, Čhăm

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cham

  • English surname182 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Korean, Hindi

    Also written Hamm, Ham, 함, Hima, Himi

5 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Chàm is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kix, skillful(Possessing skill; skilled)

    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

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chàm mean, and where does it come from?
indigo (a dark bluish-purplish color) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Chàm have the most bearers?
Chàm is most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is most often spelled cham.

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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, “Chàm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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