Ŏm
surname · Latin script
Ŏm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 312K
- USUnited States1 in 424K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
784 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Korea, 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 Om in US United States, KP North Korea.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ŏm 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 784 | 1 in 424K | 2.8K | Om | 40 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Om | 8 |
| KR South Korea | #541 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 312K | 149K | Ŏm | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 30 | 1 in 1.7M | 63 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 17 | 1 in 2.7M | 17 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
784 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Um Hong-Gilb. 1960KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean mountain climber
- Um Hyo-supb. 1966KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Uhm Jung-hwab. 1969KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
- Um Sang-hyunb. 1971KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor
- Um Ki-joonb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Uhm Ji-wonb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Um Tae-hwab. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director and screenwriter
- Um Tae-goob. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Yoo Ah-inb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (born 1986)
- Om Yun-cholb. 1991KPweightlifter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ŏm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 784 people named Ŏm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled om.
- How common is the name Ŏm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 784 people named Ŏm in 2010, about 1 in 424 thousand residents.
- How common is Ŏm compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Ŏm is the 541st most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ŏm?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%8FmThe 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, “Ŏm” — the 541st most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.