Shacham
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Shacham is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 3.7Kas שחם
- DKDenmark1 in 652Kas Shaham
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shacham itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
2,324 named שחם, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shaham in US United States, CA Canada, IN India and 1 more, שחם in IL Israel, DK Denmark and שהם in PL Poland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shacham 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #245 | 2,324as שחם | 1 in 3.7K | 2.3K | שחם | 60 |
| IN India | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 11M | listed | Shaham | 13 |
| US United States | — | 110as Shaham | 1 in 3M | 157 | Shaham | 113 |
| PL Poland | — | 39as Shaham | 1 in 982K | 20 | שהם | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Shaham | 8 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Shacham | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 9as Shaham | 1 in 652K | 9 | שחם | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 4 | 1 in 2.7M | 4 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 813K | — | Shaham | 1 |
2,324 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #209,083 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #133,680 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #392,246 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Shacham have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named שחם, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shacham?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 4 people named Shacham, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
- How common is Shacham compared with other names?
- In Israel, Shacham is the 245th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shachamThe 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, “Shacham” — the 245th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.