Kashama
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kasama/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kashama is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 311K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 311K (inferred from the name graph)
27 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kashama 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 27 | 1 in 311K | 27 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Kashama | 3 |
| AO Angola | — | — | — | Kashama | 2 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | — | 2 | — | 1 |
27 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Kashama 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 cic, to smell like something burning
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hakeem Kashamab. 1978CGCanadian and American football player (born 1978)
- Alain Kashamab. 1979USCanadian and American football player (born 1979)
- Fernand Kashamab. 1985CDPlayer of American and Canadian football
- Kalonji Kashamab. 1991CACanadian football player
- Odillon Kashamab. 1991NONorwegian association football player
- Charles TshimangaCDnot in their usual namehistorian
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 27 | #29,501 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #98,466 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #48 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kashama?
- A machine transcription gives /kasama/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Kashama have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 27 people named Kashama, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kashama most common?
- Kashama is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 311 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kashama?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 27 people named Kashama in 2024, about 1 in 311 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kashama?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kashamaThe 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, “Kashama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.