Üm
given name · Latin script
Meaning: mother
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Üm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Jordan than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 12th most common given name.
- JOJordan≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 418K
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Jordan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Um in SY Syria, JO Jordan, EG Egypt and 2 more and Ûm in LY Libya.
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)
mother
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Üm 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JO Jordan | #127 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Um | 16 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Um | 27 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Üm | 5 |
| YE Yemen | #406 | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Um | 5 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 374K | — | Ûm | 7 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Um | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| BH Bahrain | #12 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 418K | — | Um | 16 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Üm 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 nds, around, about (sometimes in combination with bi)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, trousers; drawers
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Üm mean, and where does it come from?
- mother Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Üm a male or female name?
- Üm 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 Üm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 265 people named Üm in Jordan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled um.
- How common is the name Üm?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 5 people named Üm, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Üm compared with other names?
- In Jordan, Üm is the 127th most common given name of 8,439 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Üm?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%BCmThe 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, “Üm” — the 127th most common given name in Jordan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.