Sím
surname · Latin script
Sím is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 34th most common surname. Recorded meaning: riba accipenser glaber.
- GYGuyana1 in 21K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 55K
- FIFinland1 in 94K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 372 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
6,047 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Sim 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)riba accipenser glaber
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sím 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 | — | 6,047 | 1 in 55K | 6.4K | Sim | 372 |
| BR Brazil | — | 283 | 1 in 748K | 283 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 211 | 1 in 181K | 108 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 94 | 1 in 532K | 94 | — | 35 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 71 | 1 in 243K | 103 | Sim | 29 |
| FI Finland | — | 59 | 1 in 94K | 59 | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 50 | 1 in 109K | 50 | — | 10 |
| GY Guyana | — | 36 | 1 in 21K | 36 | — | 3 |
| SG Singapore | #34 | — | — | — | Sim | 175 |
6,047 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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)Sím 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 Hungarian, first-person singular single-possession possessive of sí
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, riba accipenser glaber
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shen Yueb. 441CNnot in their usual nameChinese poet, statesman, and historian (441–513)
- Shen Kuob. 1031CNnot in their usual nameChinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
- Shen Zhoub. 1427CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter (1427-1509)
- Mao Dunb. 1896CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer (1896-1981)
- Xia Yanb. 1900CNnot in their usual nameChinese playwright (1900-1995)
- Shen Congwenb. 1902CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer (1902–1988)
- Lydia Shumb. 1945CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong comedian and actress (1945–2008)
- Freda Foh Shenb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Shen Yueyueb. 1957CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
- Qin Haiyangb. 1999CNnot in their usual nameChinese swimmer
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
- What does the name Sím mean, and where does it come from?
- riba accipenser glaber Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Sím have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Sím, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sim.
- Where is Sím most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sím is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sím?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,047 people named Sím in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Sím compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Sím is the 34th most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sím?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%ADmThe 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, “Sím” — the 34th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.