Shalam
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃeləm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shalam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.1Kas Salam(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 5.2Kas Salam
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.4Kas Salam
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 Shalam 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 named Salam, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est., as Salam
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Salam in IN India, PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh and 4 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shalam 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 | #67 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Salam | 87 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Salam | 23 |
| PK Pakistan | #163 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | listed | Salam | 75 |
| IN India | #828 | 11,036as Salam | 1 in 120K | 11K | Salam | 123 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Salam | 13 |
| AF Afghanistan | #666 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Salam | 14 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Salam | 2 |
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)
Shalam is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Evlampeiko Ivanov Shalam. 1639.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1976 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1977 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1979 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1989 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1985 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1982 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1982 | 3 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Shalam?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃeləm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shalam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 144 thousand people named Salam in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shalam?
- In India, the national register counted 11,036 people named Salam, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
- How common is Shalam compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Shalam is the 67th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shalam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shalamThe 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, “Shalam” — the 67th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.