Yamam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Israel's national counter-terrorism unit
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɑməm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yamam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 286K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 443K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈440 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Israel's national counter-terrorism unit.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yamam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Yamam | 11 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | listed | — | — |
| JO Jordan | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Yamam | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Yamam | 8 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 443K | — | Yamam | 11 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 740K | — | Yamam | 4 |
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. 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)
Attested in 5 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yamam mean, and where does it come from?
- Israel's national counter-terrorism unit. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yamam?
- A machine transcription gives /jɑməm/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Yamam a male or female name?
- Yamam 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 Yamam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 438 people named Yamam in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yamam.
- How common is the name Yamam?
- Mondonomo estimates about 440 people in Syria have Yamam as their first given name, about 1 in 44 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Yamam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yamamThe 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, “Yamam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.