Bellam
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɛɫəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bellam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered. see Belham .
- INIndia1 in 557K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 135Kas Bellem
- CACanada≈1 in 734Kas Ballem
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 Bellam 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 557K (inferred from the name graph)
2,380 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bollam in IN India, CA Canada, ID Indonesia.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): scattered. see Belham .
Sources 2
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bellam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 2,380 | 1 in 557K | 2.4K | Bollam | 64 |
| US United States | 236as Ballam | 1 in 1.4M | 261 | Bellam | 75 |
| BR Brazil | 114as Bellem | 1 in 1.9M | 114 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Bollam | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 87as Bellem | 1 in 135K | 87 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 734K | — | Bollam | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 1as Bollam | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
2,380 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling bellam. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Bellam is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kr, or kdtsagd bellam, 8. a javelin: see No. 4 in the Ap- pendix to Major Denham's Travels
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In Latin, accusative feminine singular of bellus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Prudence Tunnadineb. 1928GBnot in their usual namephysician, founder of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bellam mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered. see Belham . Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Bellam?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛɫəm/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Bellam have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Bellam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bollam.
- Where is Bellam most common?
- Bellam is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 557 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bellam?
- In India, the national register counted 2,380 people named Bellam, about 1 in 557 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bellam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bellamThe 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, “Bellam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.