Zaman
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Albizia saman, a large tropical tree in the pea family
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zaman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 593(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.2K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 9.4K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 593 (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 people, est.
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)
Albizia saman, a large tropical tree in the pea family.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Zaman is read(measured from records)
Zaman is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Urdu46%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zaman in Urdu.
- English19%
Albizia saman, a large tropical tree in the pea family.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Bangla7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zaman in Bangla.
- Arabic5.7%
time, age, era
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
, (zamaan): time, age, era
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zaman 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 | #54 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 593 | — | Zaman | 145 |
| PK Pakistan | #50 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Zaman | 121 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Zaman | 19 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Zaman | 2 |
| US United States | — | 3,694 | 1 in 90K | 5.5K | Zaman | 168 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Zaman | 31 |
| GY Guyana | — | 148 | 1 in 5.1K | 148 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
Zaman is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Time, epoch,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
A time
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Turkish, time (progression into the future with the passing of present and past events)
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)
- Sahar Zamanb. 1901INIndian journalist
- Niaz Zamanb. 1941BDBangladeshi academic, writer
- Dilara Zamanb. 1943BDBangladeshi actress
- Qamar Zamanb. 1952PKPakistani squash player
- Hossein Zamanb. 1959IRIranian singer (1959-2023)
- Dina Zamanb. 1969MYMalaysian writer
- Hisham Zamanb. 1975NOKurdish-Norwegian film director
- Fakhar Zamanb. 1990PKPakistani cricketer
- Farhan Zamanb. 1992PKsquash player
- Tangia Zaman Methilab. 1994BDBangladeshi model and beauty pageant titleholder
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 63 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.5K | #6,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,822 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 148 | #477 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
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 Zaman mean, and where does it come from?
- Albizia saman, a large tropical tree in the pea family. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Zaman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 274 thousand people named Zaman in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaman.
- How common is the name Zaman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,694 people named Zaman in 2010, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
- How common is Zaman compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Zaman is the 54th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zaman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zamanThe 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, “Zaman” — the 54th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.