Kalamu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pen (writing tool)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kalamu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 3.7Kfew recordsas Kalam(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 16Kas Kalam
- THThailand≈1 in 38Kas กลม
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 Kalamu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 named Kalam, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est., as Kalam
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled กลม in TH Thailand, কালাম in BD Bangladesh, Ka-Lam in US United States and Kalam in PK Pakistan.
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)pen (writing tool)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kalamu 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 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | listed | কালাম | 94 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | — | 29 |
| TH Thailand | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 38K | register #8,695 | กลม | 41 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 169K | listed | Kalam | 28 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 525 | Ka-Lam | 122 |
| GY Guyana | 15as Kalam | 1 in 50K | 15 | — | 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: 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)Kalamu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, hemp
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kalamu mean, and where does it come from?
- pen (writing tool) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kalamu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Kalam in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kalamu?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 15 people named Kalam in 2025, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kalamu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalamuThe 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, “Kalamu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.