Húm
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Húm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Chinese iM '■ Taishan spelling of of Tan.
- HRCroatia1 in 40K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 323K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.8M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
1,029 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hum in US United States, AR Argentina, BR Brazil.
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)
Chinese iM '■ Taishan spelling of of Tan
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Húm 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.
1,029 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Húm mean, and where does it come from?
- Chinese iM '■ Taishan spelling of of Tan Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- Is Húm a male or female name?
- Húm is a male 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 Húm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Húm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hum.
- Where is Húm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Húm is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Húm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,029 people named Húm in 2010, about 1 in 323 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Húm?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%BAmThe 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, “Húm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.