Shayama
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Shayama is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 7.3Kas Shyama(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 24Kas Sema
- SESweden1 in 42Kas Sema
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 Shayama itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 named Shyama, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est., as Shyama
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shyama in US United States, LK Sri Lanka, Shyma in EG Egypt, AE United Arab Emirates and Sema in BD Bangladesh.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shayama 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #896 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Shyama | 27 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Sema | 13 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Shyma | 29 |
| US United States | — | 687as Sema | 1 in 484K | 619 | Shyama | 109 |
| SE Sweden | — | 243as Sema | 1 in 42K | 243 | — | 1 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Shyma | 20 |
| DK Denmark | — | 134as Sema | 1 in 44K | 134 | — | — |
| AL Albania | — | 126as Sema | 1 in 24K | 126 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shayama a male or female name?
- Shayama is a female 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 Shayama have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Shyama in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shayama?
- In the United States, the national register counted 687 people named Sema in 2020, about 1 in 484 thousand residents.
- How common is Shayama compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Shayama is the 896th most common given name of 14,062 given names 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/shayamaThe 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, “Shayama” — the 896th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.