Semën

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sɛmn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Semën is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 8.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 1.5Kas Семен
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 2Kas Семен

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Semën itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈94,000 named Семен, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Belarus, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SemënLatin(measured from records)
СеменCyrillic(measured from records)
სემიონGeorgian(measured from records)
ซีเมนThai(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Семен in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, IL Israel and 1 more, Simen in NO Norway, Semion in MD Moldova and Semen in PL Poland.

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)

Derivation of Semën: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Semën
  1. Middle Englishsemen(measured from records)
  2. Latinsēmen“seed”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Indo-European*seh₁-“to sow; plant”(measured from records)

From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).

Sources 3

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Semën 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.

Where Semën is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#101≈94,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K#57Семен178
UA Ukraine#136≈23,000 est.≈1 in 2KlistedСемен50
NO Norway—8,652as Simen1 in 63232KSimen7
UZ Uzbekistan—≈4,100 est.≈1 in 7.4K—Семён8
MD Moldova#3173,007as Semion1 in 1.1K3KSemion13
PL Poland—1,3401 in 29K1.3KSemen27
IL Israel—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 7.3K—Семен34
BY Belarus#150≈1,100 est.≈1 in 8.3K3Семен25

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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); e-services.md — living population register; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Semën is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Šemen, Semen, Şemen

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Semen, Şemen, Seme͏̈n, Šemen

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Semyon Shchedrin, b. 1745Semyon Nadson, b. 1862Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, b. 1883Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko, b. 1895Semyon Lavochkin, b. 1900Semyon Kurkotkin, b. 1917Semion Mogilevich, b. 1946Semyon Bychkov, b. 1952Semyon Slepakov, b. 1979Semyon Treskunov, b. 1999

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalПривет, Semën!Hi Semën, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Semën under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Semën mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
How do you pronounce Semën?
A machine transcription gives /sɛmn/ (IPA) for Russian.
Is Semën a male or female name?
Semën 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 Semën have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 94 thousand people named Семен in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Semën?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,340 people named Semën in 2026, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
How common is Semën compared with other names?
In Russia, Semën is the 101st most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sem%C3%ABn

The 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, “Semën” — the 101st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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