How to say “name” in 52 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- nombre/ˈnombɾe/ Spanish
- اسم/ism/ Arabic
- 名字/miŋ³⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩³/ Chinese
- 이름[iɾɯm] Korean
- नाम/nɑːm/ Hindi
- όνομα/ˈo.no.ma/ Greek
“name” in Spanish: nombre · French: nom · Italian: nome · Portuguese: nome · Chinese: 名字 · Korean: 이름 · Arabic: اسم · Hindi: नाम
It is commonest in Malayalam, where പേര് is the 52nd most used word.
Name in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans naam/nɑːm/ #161
- Albanian emrin/ɛmɾin/ #267
- Arabic اسم/ism/ #321
- Armenian հանուն/hɑˈnun/ in the name of, in behalf of #296
- Basque izena/iˈs̻eˌna/ #113
- Bengali নাম/nam/ #93
- Bosnian ime/îme/ #192
- Bulgarian име[ˈimɛ] name, appellation #321
- Catalan nom[ˈnɔm] #222
- Chinese 名字/miŋ³⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩³/ #61
- Croatian ime/îme/ #195
- Czech jméno[ˈjmɛːno] #338
- Danish navn[ˈnɑwˀn] #230
- Dutch naam/naːm/ #241
- English named/neɪmd/ To give a name to #1,149
- Esperanto nomo/ˈnomo/ #223
- Estonian nimi/ˈnimi/ #212
- Finnish nimi/ˈnimi/ #399
- French nom/ˈnɔ̃/ #201
- Galician tes/ˈtɛs/ The name of the Latin script letter T/t #104
- Georgian სახელი[säχe̞li] #245
- German heißt/ˈhaɪst/ to have a name; to be named; to be called;… #298
- Greek όνομα/ˈo.no.ma/ #266
- Hindi नाम/nɑːm/ #170
- Hungarian név[ˈneːv] #1,281
- Icelandic kalla[ˈkʰatla] to call, name, refer to #323
- Indonesian nama/ˈnama/ #233
- Italian nome/ˈno.me/ #257
- Korean 이름[iɾɯm] name; full name #384
- Latvian vārdu/ˈʋaːrdu/ #280
- Lithuanian vardas[²ˈʋɐrˑdɐs] #205
- Macedonian име[ˈimɛ] #197
- Malay nama/ˈnamə/ #167
- Malayalam പേര്/peːɾɨ/ #52
- Norwegian heter/ˈheːtər/ To be called; to have as a name #221
- Persian اسم[ʔesm] #147
- Polish imię/ˈi.mjɛ/ name; given name #355
- Portuguese nome/ˈnõ.mi/ #201
- Romanian numele[ˈnumele] #205
- Russian имя[ˈimʲə] personal name, first name, Christian name,… #299
- Serbian ime/îme/ #198
- Slovak meno/menɔ/ #201
- Slovenian ime/iméː/ #116
- Spanish nombre/ˈnombɾe/ #215
- Swedish heter/ˈheːtɛr/ to be called; to have as one's name, to hight #212
- Tagalog pangalan/paˈŋalan/ #132
- Tamil பெயர்/pɛjɐɾ/ name, designation, epithet, identity #121
- Telugu పేరు/peːɾu/ #68
- Turkish a/a/ The name of the Latin script letter A/a #101
- Ukrainian називати[nɐzeˈʋate] to name, to call #1,799
- Urdu نام/nɑːm/ #98
- Vietnamese họ[hɔ˧˨ʔ] family name; surname #58
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.