Seim
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Seim is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script.
- DEGermany1 in 82K◐
- USUnited States1 in 216K
- AGAntigua & Barbuda1 in 47K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.0K ◐
- Sources
- 116 ●
- 1 in 47K ◐
across 15 countries
15K records
Official registry-verified
Antigua & Barbuda
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈1.5K | 13K rec. | 1 in 216K | 1.5K | Seim | 116 |
| DE Germany | ≈975 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 82K | — | Seim | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈171 | 528 rec. | 1 in 385K | — | Seim | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈138 | 253 rec. | 1 in 273K | 1 | Seim | 20 |
| AU Australia | ≈68 | 180 rec. | 1 in 374K | — | Seim | 6 |
| GH Ghana | ≈51△ | 24 rec. | 1 in 574K | — | Seim | 7 |
| AT Austria | ≈28 | 21 rec. | 1 in 321K | — | Seim | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈17 | 36 rec. | 1 in 1M | — | Seim | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈17 | 27 rec. | 1 in 357K | — | Seim | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈12 | 22 rec. | 1 in 418K | — | Seim | 2 |
| BB Barbados | ≈5 | 21 rec. | 1 in 56K | — | Seim | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈3 | 9 rec. | 1 in 2.5M | — | Seim | 4 |
Roughly 1.5K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 216K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English14K71%
- Norwegian Bokmål2.3K12%
- German1.3K7%
- Norwegian4883%
- Spanish2892%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 13,615 | 71% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 2,324 | 12% |
| German | 1,345 | 7% |
| Norwegian | 488 | 3% |
| Spanish | 289 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,188 |
| 2019 | 1,187 |
| 2020 | 1,186 |
| 2021 | 1,190 |
| 2022 | 1,186 |
| 2023 | 1,182 |
| 2024 | 1,177 |
| 2025 | 1,162 |
NO SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) — 8 years between 2018–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Signe Seimb. 1929NONorwegian writer
- Jürgen Seimb. 1932DEGerman Protestant theologian
- Turid Karlsen Seimb. 1945NONorwegian professor (1945-2016)
- Arild Seimb. 1954NONorwegian musician
- Roland Seimb. 1965DEGerman author and journalist
- Trond Espen Seimb. 1971NONorwegian actor
- Trygve Seimb. 1971NONorwegian jazz musician
- Gunhild Seimb. 1973NONorwegian musician
- Cecilie Seimb. 1976NONorwegian illustrator
- Mart Seimb. 1990EEEstonian weightlifter (born 1990)
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●
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 69 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Seim?
- We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Seim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Seim have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.5 thousand people bear Seim in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled seim.
- Where is Seim most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Seim is densest in Antigua & Barbuda — about 1 in 47 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Seim”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.