Islam
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From a Muslim personal name derived from Arabic islam, ‘peace’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪslɑːm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Islam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 23(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 194
- QAQatar≈1 in 268
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #573 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23 (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, 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)
From a Muslim personal name derived from Arabic islam, ‘peace’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Islam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #2 | ≈7,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 23 | listed | Islam | 224 |
| PK Pakistan | #89 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Islam | 105 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #18 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 560 | — | Islam | 111 |
| IN India | #161 | 40,445 | 1 in 33K | 40K | Islam | 181 |
| MY Malaysia | #72 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Islam | 66 |
| OM Oman | #7 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 323 | — | Islam | 30 |
| QA Qatar | #13 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 268 | — | Islam | 50 |
| BH Bahrain | #7 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 194 | — | Islam | 29 |
| KW Kuwait | #32 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 397 | — | Islam | 48 |
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. 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)
Islam 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.
from a personal name based on Arabic isldm ‘peace’, the name of the religion of Muslims. Isldm is mentioned in several places in the Qur’an, for example at 3:19 ‘Religion with Allah is Islam (peace)’ and 5:3 ‘I have chosen for you Islam (peace) as religion’. This name is often found in combinations, e.g. Nur-ulIslam ‘light of Islam’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, religion
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Arabic, submission; Islam
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, Islam, safe
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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)
- Kazi Nazrul Islamb. 1899INNational poet of Bangladesh (1899-1976)
- Samira Islamb. 1901SASaudi pharmacologist
- Ayşenur İslamb. 1958TRTurkish statesperson (born 1958)
- Atiqul Islamb. 1961BDformer Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation
- Saiful Islamb. 1963GBBritish chemist
- Afrika Islamb. 1967USAmerican musician
- Mohd Mamunul Islamb. 1988BDBangladeshi footballer
- Mitchell Islamb. 1990CACanadian ice dancer
- Shariful Islamb. 2001BDBangladeshi cricketer
- Sharif Islamactor
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 88 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 84 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Islam mean, and where does it come from?
- From a Muslim personal name derived from Arabic islam, ‘peace’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Islam?
- In the etymology graph, Islaam is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Islam?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪslɑːm/ (IPA) for Bangla.
- In which country does Islam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 million people named Islam in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled islam.
- How common is the name Islam?
- In India, the national register counted 40,445 people named Islam, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Islam compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Islam is the 2nd most common surname of 12,312 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/islamThe 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, “Islam” — the 2nd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.