Alom
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æləm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alom is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 102as Alam(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 344as Alam
- QAQatar≈1 in 404as Alam
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 Alom 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)
- #245 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 102 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600,000 named Alam, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est., as Alam
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alam in IN India, PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh and 5 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)
Alom 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 | #8 | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 102 | listed | Alam | 195 |
| PK Pakistan | #52 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 2 | Alam | 122 |
| IN India | #44 | 143,481as Alam | 1 in 9.2K | 143K | Alam | 223 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #14 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 615 | listed | Alam | 100 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #12 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 507 | — | Alam | 102 |
| QA Qatar | #22 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 404 | — | Alam | 50 |
| KW Kuwait | #36 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 534 | — | Alam | 36 |
| BH Bahrain | #14 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 344 | — | Alam | 33 |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)
Alom is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, strew
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Hungarian, litter, bedding, bed of straw (for animals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a tree, Melanolepsis multiglandulosa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hnn, Melanolepis multiglandulosa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, everywhere, all around
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hil, dark, dim
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)
- Nelson Alomb. 1990IDIndonesian footballer
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 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 13K | #852 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 357 | #494 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 21 | #5,445 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #4,755 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #24,518 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Alom?
- A machine transcription gives /æləm/ (IPA) for Bangla.
- In which country does Alom have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Alam in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Alom?
- In India, the national register counted 143,481 people named Alam, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Alom compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Alom is the 8th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alom?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alomThe 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, “Alom” — the 8th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.