Takam
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/təkəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Takam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 948K(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 25Kas ตาคำ
- CMCameroon≈1 in 2.6K
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 Takam 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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ตาคำ in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia.
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)
Takam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #302 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Takam | 15 |
| TH Thailand | #516 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 25K | #214,984 | ตาคำ | 75 |
| IN India | — | 1,399 | 1 in 948K | 1.4K | Takam | 18 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 418K | — | ตาคำ | 1 |
| US United States | — | 114as Tacam | 1 in 2.9M | 129 | Takam | 45 |
| GY Guyana | — | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | 1 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Takam 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 Filipino, hankering or craving for something very tasty (usually manifests by salivating and smacking of one's lips and tongue)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In adl, clay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.4K | #4,213 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 343 | #388 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #125,803 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #3,250 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #163,601 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #622 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Takam?
- A machine transcription gives /təkəm/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Takam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Takam in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled takam.
- How common is the name Takam?
- In India, the national register counted 1,399 people named Takam, about 1 in 948 thousand residents.
- How common is Takam compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Takam is the 302nd most common surname of 27,213 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Takam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takamThe 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, “Takam” — the 302nd most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.