Lìm
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lìm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Korean, including 임 (Im), 林 or 任; 림 (Rim), 林.
- USUnited States1 in 9K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 8.2K
- FIFinland1 in 18K
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
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
37,021 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lim in US United States, SG Singapore, NL Netherlands.
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)
From Korean, including 임 (Im), 林 or 任; 림 (Rim), 林.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lìm 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 | — | 37,021 | 1 in 9K | 40K | Lim | 46 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,381 | 1 in 89K | 2.4K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 531 | 1 in 33K | 531 | Lim | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 449 | 1 in 19K | 449 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 340 | 1 in 113K | 185 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 314 | 1 in 18K | 314 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 192 | 1 in 28K | 192 | — | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 91 | 1 in 8.2K | 91 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | #720 | — | — | — | Lim | 24 |
37,021 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)
Lìm is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kix, submerge
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lìm mean, and where does it come from?
- From Korean, including 임 (Im), 林 or 任; 림 (Rim), 林. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Lìm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Lìm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lim.
- Where is Lìm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lìm is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lìm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,021 people named Lìm in 2010, about 1 in 9.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Lìm compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Lìm is the 720th most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%ACmThe 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, “Lìm” — the 720th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.