Nizam
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nizam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Turkish, recorded as order, arrangement.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.1K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 13K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nijam in KW Kuwait, BH Bahrain, ID Indonesia.
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)
The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nizam is read(measured from records)
Nizam is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Malay18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nizam in Malay.
- Turkish17%
order, arrangement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
1. Kural.2. Düzen, tertip, sıra. 3. Kanun.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Hindi15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nizam in Hindi.
- Urdu11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nizam in Urdu.
- English9.0%
The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nizam 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 | #309 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Nizam | 82 |
| PK Pakistan | #294 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Nizam | 57 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Nijam | 27 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Nizam | 60 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Nizam | 12 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Nijam | 7 |
| US United States | — | 379 | 1 in 878K | 413 | Nizam | 69 |
| BH Bahrain | #703 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Nijam | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 126 | 1 in 6K | 126 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)
Nizam is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, order; arrangement; discipline; ruler; system
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, order, system
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Disciplinarian, arranger.
as a nameThe African book of 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)
- Salim Nizamb. 1970TRTurkish writer (born 1970)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 56 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 367 | #25,135 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 126 | #468 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #25,135 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 5 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Where does the name Nizam come from?
- The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Nizam mean?
- In Turkish, order, arrangement
- Is Nizam a male or female name?
- Nizam 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 Nizam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Nizam in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nizam.
- How common is the name Nizam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named Nizam in 2020, about 1 in 878 thousand residents.
- How common is Nizam compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Nizam is the 309th most common given name of 29,323 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/nizamThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nizam” — the 309th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.