Kahm
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Yeast which tends to form on fermented foods, such as sauerkraut
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kahm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 140K
- SESweden≈1 in 298K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
220 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kähm in DE Germany.
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)
Yeast which tends to form on fermented foods, such as sauerkraut.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Kahm is read(measured from records)
Kahm is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English72%
Yeast which tends to form on fermented foods, such as sauerkraut.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German8.0%
Prussian name
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kahm 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 | 220 | 1 in 1.5M | 256 | Kahm | 136 |
| DE Germany | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 413K | — | Kähm | 33 |
| SE Sweden | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 298K | — | Kahm | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Kahm | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Kahm | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Kahm | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | 12 | — | 2 |
220 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; the ee-stat-nimed 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kam Woo-sungb. 1970KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Gam Han-solb. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
- Alex Kamb. 1995NZnot in their usual nameSouth Korean figure skater
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 256 | #80,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 220 | #85,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 196 | #88,083 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,351 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #9,781 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Kahm mean, and where does it come from?
- Yeast which tends to form on fermented foods, such as sauerkraut. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kahm?
- A machine transcription gives /kəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kahm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 220 people named Kahm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kahm.
- How common is the name Kahm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 220 people named Kahm in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million 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/kahmThe 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, “Kahm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.