Namm

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/nəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Namm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: tare, invalidité.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 58K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 859K

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)

166 people, 2010

Sources
147 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

tare, invalidité

Sources 1

  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Namm 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 Namm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1661 in 2M174Namm147
GB United Kingdom≈36 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Namm12
EE Estonia≈21 est.≈1 in 58K15Namm8
NL Netherlands≈19 est.≈1 in 931K—Namm1
CA Canada≈13 est.≈1 in 2.8M—Namm6
NZ New Zealand≈6 est.≈1 in 859K—Namm2

166 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Vietnamese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam

    Also written Nấmm, Nam'M, Nam-M

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Nämm

  • a separate surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Năm'M, Năm-M, Nấmm, Nấm'M, Nấm-M

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ňämm, Ñamm, Nắmm, Nấmm

  • Thai surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written Nam'M

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France

    Also written Nấmm

23 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)

Namm is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Icelandic, yum (indicating something delicious)

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

  • In Breton, tare, invalidité

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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)

1850186018701880Johanna Namm, b. 1858Agnes Namm, b. 1864Emilie Namm, b. 1872

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)

FormalDear Ms Namm,
InformalHi Namm,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Namm
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020174#108,494
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000170#98,770
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010166#107,134
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—15#7,570
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—13#8,414
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Namm mean, and where does it come from?
tare, invalidité Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
How do you pronounce Namm?
A machine transcription gives /nəm/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Namm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 166 people named Namm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled namm.
How common is the name Namm?
In the United States, the national register counted 166 people named Namm in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

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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, “Namm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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