Shahm
given name · Latin script
Meaning: To protect,
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/shahm/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Shahm is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 680K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 680K (inferred from the name graph)
15 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)To protect,
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shahm 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 15 | 1 in 680K | 15 | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | — | — | listed | Shahm | 7 |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | Shahm | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 17 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 12 | — | 1 |
15 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 17 | #20,284 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #28,667 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1994 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1990 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shahm mean, and where does it come from?
- To protect, Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names.
- How do you pronounce Shahm?
- In Turkish /shahm/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Shahm a male or female name?
- Shahm is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shahm have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 15 people named Shahm, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shahm most common?
- Shahm is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 680 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Shahm?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 15 people named Shahm, about 1 in 680 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shahm?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shahmThe 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, “Shahm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.