Gulam

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡulam/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gulam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Afghanistan it is the 52nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 4.6K
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 5.9K

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)

≈51,000 people, est.

Sources
141 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gulam 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.

Where Gulam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#359≈51,000 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Gulam50
BD Bangladesh#933≈20,000 est.≈1 in 8.2K—Gulam52
AF Afghanistan#52≈11,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Gulam11
SA Saudi Arabia#275≈5,800 est.≈1 in 5.9K—Gulam38
NP Nepal—≈5,500 est.≈1 in 5.5K—Gulam13
AE United Arab Emirates#505≈2,300 est.≈1 in 4.3K—Gulam41
US United States—2911 in 1.1M291Gulam129

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gulam is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Gulām, Gulāṃ, Ḡulām, Ġulām, Ġulam

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, South Africa, Tanzania

    Also written Gülam

  • Bulgarian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Гулам

  • Urdu given name71 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United States, Afghanistan

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi, English

    Also written Ghulam, กุลาม, Ghulām, Gulom, G̲h̲ulām

  • Russian given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Гулам, Гулям, Ghulam, Qulam, Гхулам

  • Uzbek given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Russia, India

    Also written Ğulam, Gulâm

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gulam is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In qfa-yen-pro, covering, lid

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Latin, accusative singular of gula

    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)

1800185019001950Ghulam Muhammad Din Puri, b. 1835Ghulam Rasool Alampuri, b. 1849The Great Gama, b. 1878Gulam Yahya Daneshian, b. 1906Ghulam Abbas, b. 1909Ghulam Azam, b. 1922Ghulam Guard, b. 1925Ghulam Murshid, b. 1940Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi, b. 1950

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)

Informalनमस्ते Gulam जी,Hi Gulam, (English)

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 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Gulam
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020291#30,089

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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 Gulam?
A machine transcription gives /ɡulam/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Gulam a male or female name?
Gulam 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 Gulam have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Gulam in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gulam.
How common is the name Gulam?
In the United States, the national register counted 291 people named Gulam in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
How common is Gulam compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Gulam is the 359th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gulam” — the 359th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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