Qayyum
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/keɪiəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Qayyum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: eternal, everlasting; an epithet of Allah.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1M
- BHBahrain≈1 in 14K
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)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈68,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
eternal, everlasting; an epithet of Allah
Sources 2
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Qayyum 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 | #125 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 1 | Qayyum | 127 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Qayyum | 32 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #981 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | listed | Qayyum | 37 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Qayyum | 19 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #738 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Qayyum | 36 |
| US United States | — | 325 | 1 in 1M | 484 | Qayyum | 158 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Qayyum | 9 |
| BH Bahrain | #924 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Qayyum | 5 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Qayyum 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 Arabic, eternal, everlasting. Al-Qayyum 4 5,all, the Eternal: one of the names of Allah. asiall jal! ga YW all ¥ ail "Allah! There is no God except Him, the Living, the Eternal." (surat al- Baqarah 2:255)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, eternal, everlasting; an epithet of Allah
as a nameA Dictionary of 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)
- Bushra Qayyumb. 1995PKbadminton player
- Rehan Qayyumresearcher
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 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 484 | #47,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 325 | #61,745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 203 | #85,643 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #874 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Qayyum mean, and where does it come from?
- eternal, everlasting; an epithet of Allah Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Qayyum?
- A machine transcription gives /keɪiəm/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Qayyum have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 68 thousand people named Qayyum in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qayyum.
- How common is the name Qayyum?
- In the United States, the national register counted 325 people named Qayyum in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Qayyum compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Qayyum is the 125th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qayyumThe 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, “Qayyum” — the 125th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.