Ghulam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: young, youth
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡjuɫæm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ghulam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 387(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 516
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.5K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 387 (inferred from the name graph)
≈450,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, 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)
young, youth
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghulam 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 | ≈450,000 est. | ≈1 in 516 | 1 | Ghulam | 169 |
| AF Afghanistan | #10 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 387 | 1 | Ghulam | 37 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #156 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | listed | Ghulam | 74 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #131 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Ghulam | 71 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Ghulam | 41 |
| US United States | — | 1,696 | 1 in 196K | 1.5K | Ghulam | 220 |
| BH Bahrain | #95 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Ghulam | 28 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the muslim-baby-names-2000 register. 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)
Ghulam is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
slave; servant.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, servant, boy, youth. a, ols ,t43 aula "So, We gave him [Ibrahim] good news of a gentle son." (surat al- Saffat 37:101)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, A personal guard to the shah of Persia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, servant, boy, youth
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)
- Ghulam Rasool Alampurib. 1849Punjabi poet
- The Great Gamab. 1878PKnot in their usual nameIndian and Pakistani professional wrestler
- Gulam Yahya Daneshianb. 1906IRnot in their usual namepolitician, major general
- Ghulam Abbasb. 1909PKwriter (1909–1982)
- Ghulam Azamb. 1922BDBangladeshi politician (1922-2014)
- Ghulam Guardb. 1925INIndian cricketer (1925-1978)
- Ghulam Murshidb. 1940BDBangladeshi writer and journalist (1940–2024)
- Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvib. 1950INIndian Muslim Scholar
- Ghulam Sughrab. 2000PKPakistani activist
- Ghulam MustafaPKPakistan Amry general
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #8,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 149 | #8,538 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 5 | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
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 Ghulam mean, and where does it come from?
- young, youth Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Ghulam?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡjuɫæm/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Ghulam a male or female name?
- Ghulam 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 Ghulam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 453 thousand people named Ghulam in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghulam.
- How common is the name Ghulam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,696 people named Ghulam in 2020, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
- How common is Ghulam compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ghulam is the 3rd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghulamThe 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, “Ghulam” — the 3rd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.