Arqam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: writer; the best recorder; companion of the Prophet Muhammad
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Arqam is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 64Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- INIndia≈1 in 4.5Mfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)writer; the best recorder; companion of the Prophet Muhammad
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arqam 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 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 64K | listed | Arqam | 40 |
| IN India | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | Arqam | 28 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | 8 | Arqam | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | — | Arqam | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | 1 | Arqam | 5 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 8 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 1 | #2,230 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arqam mean, and where does it come from?
- writer; the best recorder; companion of the Prophet Muhammad Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Arqam a male or female name?
- Arqam is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Arqam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Arqam in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arqam.
- How common is the name Arqam?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1 people named Arqam in 2026, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arqamThe 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, “Arqam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.