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Worldwide, Beam (Bim , Beam , คาน ) is quite a common epicene first name. The first name Beam is habitual in Albania, where it is quite a rare boy's name, Jamaica, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name. In absolute terms, the name is most common in India, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More prevalently, Beam is the last name as well as the forename.
Beam is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Bim , the fictional Gordon Setter from Gavriil Troyepolsky's White Bim Black Ear and Bim Hightopp , the character from Alice Through the Looking Glass.