Hame

surname · Latin script

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

Hame is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx and Surrey;.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 114K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 467K
  • SESweden1 in 638K

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.

Norway (measured from records)

48 people

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 114K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Middx and Surrey;. locative name, in S England a variant of Ham , in which the double consonant of atte hamme has been simplifed to give atte hame, with lengthening of the vowel in the resulting open syllable. Compare Dan Ham, 1577, Kath Hame, 1628 in IGI (Ockham, Surrey), and see Home for a similar development of hom(me), the W Midland form of the same word. Some post-medieval bearers may alternatively belong with (2).

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hame 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 Hame is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway481 in 114K48—1
CH Switzerland181 in 467K18——
SE Sweden161 in 638K16——
IN India121 in 111M12Hame21
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3——

48 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Hame is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Haeme, Häme, Hamê, Tavastia, Hãmë

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Hâmë

  • French surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States

    Also written Hamé, Hamê, Hamè, Hämê, Hàme

  • Finnish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Häme, Tavastia

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Hamé, Häme

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Argentina, El Salvador

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Häme, Hamé, Hâmê

40 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)

Hame is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A covering, skin, membrane.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, vocative singular of hāmus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, dative singular of hām

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, hame (skin, membrane)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, skirt

    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)

Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Hame
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—48#26,639
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202418#39,486
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—16#29,104
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—12#105,412
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—12#4,573
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20083#123,128
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—3#81,567

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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 Hame mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Middx and Surrey;. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
What are other forms of the name Hame?
In the etymology graph, Likam is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Hame have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 48 people named Hame, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Hame most common?
Hame is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 114 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hame?
In Norway, the national register counted 48 people named Hame, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hame”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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