Azam
surname · Latin script
Meaning: | greater; more powerful
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æzəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Azam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.8K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
| greater; more powerful
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Azam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #68 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Azam | 118 |
| BD Bangladesh | #108 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Azam | 98 |
| MY Malaysia | #818 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Azam | 56 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Azam | 4 |
| US United States | — | 1,536 | 1 in 217K | 2K | Azam | 268 |
| NO Norway | — | 310 | 1 in 18K | 310 | — | 14 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Azam is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, greater, greatest, more important, most important; comp. adj. of Azim aie, mighty. lysates lyre! Guill
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, greater, greatest; most important; most pious
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Malay, resolution (statement of intent)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In drg, livestock; domesticated animals
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Turkish, Büyük, çok büyük.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Ghulam Azamb. 1922BDBangladeshi politician (1922-2014)
- Saiful Azamb. 1941BDBangladeshi fighter pilot
- Patrick Azamb. 1953FRFrench actor
- Jacques Azamb. 1961FRFrench comics artist
- Nasser Azamb. 1963GBBritish artist
- Rafiq Azamb. 1963BDPrincipal Architect and owner of SHATOTTO – architecture for green living
- Olivier Azamb. 1973FRFrench slavist
- Faisal Azamb. 1974PKfilm editor
- Rizwan Azamb. 1985PKPakistani badminton player
- Mohammad Babar Azamb. 1994PKPakistani cricketer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 64 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 600 | #10,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 591 | #10,963 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 116 | #7,013 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 66 | #10,101 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Azam mean, and where does it come from?
- | greater; more powerful Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Azam?
- A machine transcription gives /æzəm/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Azam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 181 thousand people named Azam in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled azam.
- How common is the name Azam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,536 people named Azam in 2010, about 1 in 217 thousand residents.
- How common is Azam compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Azam is the 68th most common surname of 51,489 surnames 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/azamThe 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, “Azam” — the 68th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.