Shâm

surname · Latin script

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

Shâm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably a dialectal form of shame.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 362K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 7.5K
  • SESweden1 in 11K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

924 people

Sources
212 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sham in US United States.

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(measured from records)

Probably a dialectal form of shame.

Sources 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shâm 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 Shâm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden9241 in 11K924—13
US United States9181 in 362K776Sham212
NO Norway2171 in 25K714—8
DK Denmark1281 in 46K117——
GY Guyana1001 in 7.5K100—2
IS Iceland81 in 44K8——

924 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Shâm is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Syria, United States, India

    Also written Sham, Shãm, Shàm, Shäm, Shám

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Shâm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Shâm mean, and where does it come from?
Probably a dialectal form of shame. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
In which country does Shâm have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 924 people named Shâm, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Shâm most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shâm is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 7.5 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Shâm?
In Sweden, the national register counted 924 people named Shâm, about 1 in 11 thousand 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, “Shâm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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