Ilhåm

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ilhåm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām).

rarermore common
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 739(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.1K
  • ESSpain1 in 16K

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.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈240,000 people, est.

Sources
219 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 470 (inferred from the name graph)

Azerbaijan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ilham in ID Indonesia, MA Morocco, ES Spain and 2 more.

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)

From Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām).

Sources 4

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ilhåm 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.

Where Ilhåm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia#83≈240,000 est.≈1 in 1.1KlistedIlham219
MA Morocco#353≈48,000 est.≈1 in 739listedIlham58
AZ Azerbaijan—≈22,000 est.≈1 in 470508—23
SY Syria—≈5,900 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Ilham9
FR France—≈5,000 est.≈1 in 14K2.7K—3
ES Spain—3,1571 in 16K3.2KIlham36
TM Turkmenistan—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 2K—Ilham3

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ilhåm is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name119 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Syria, Iraq, Türkiye

    Also written Ilham, Ilhame, Ilhàm, Ilhām, Ilhâm

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ilhåm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ilhåm mean, and where does it come from?
From Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām). Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Ilhåm a male or female name?
Ilhåm is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Ilhåm have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 242 thousand people named Ilhåm in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ilham.
How common is the name Ilhåm?
In Spain, the national register counted 3,157 people named Ilhåm, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Ilhåm compared with other names?
In Indonesia, Ilhåm is the 83rd most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ilhåm” — the 83rd most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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