Hahm
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metonymic occupational name for a sealer of weights and measures, from Middle High German hdme ‘(standard) measure’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhæm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hahm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 444K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.9M
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 444K (inferred from the name graph)
750 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
metonymic occupational name for a sealer of weights and measures, from Middle High German hdme ‘(standard) measure’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hahm 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 | 750 | 1 in 444K | 850 | Hahm | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 111 | 1 in 1.9M | 111 | Hahm | 11 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Hahm | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Hahm | 1 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Hahm | 2 |
| HN Honduras | — | — | — | Hahm | 1 |
750 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ham Tae-youngb. 1872KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician
- Walther Hahmb. 1894DEGerman General and Knight's Cross recipient (1894-1951)
- Ham Seok-heonb. 1901KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean activist and philosopher (1901–1989)
- Ham Heung-chulb. 1930KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer (1930-2000)
- Su Jung Hamb. 1962KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actress
- Ham Pong-silb. 1974KPnot in their usual nameathletics competitor
- Seo Hee Hamb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean mixed martial artist
- Ham Eun-jeongb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress, member of girl group T-ara
- Ham Deok-jub. 1995KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
- Ham Sung-minb. 1998KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 850 | #29,580 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 750 | #30,980 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 528 | #39,240 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 111 | #58,586 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #221,662 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Hahm mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name for a sealer of weights and measures, from Middle High German hdme ‘(standard) measure’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hahm?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hahm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 750 people named Hahm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hahm.
- Where is Hahm most common?
- Hahm is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 444 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hahm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 750 people named Hahm in 2010, about 1 in 444 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/hahmThe 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, “Hahm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.