Zamzam
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: Sacred well/place name in Mecca used for Muslim children
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zamzam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 7.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 441K
- OMOman≈1 in 3.4K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sacred well/place name in Mecca used for Muslim children.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Zamzam is read(measured from records)
Zamzam is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Swahili34%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zamzam in Swahili.
- Arabic23%
Sacred well/place name in Mecca used for Muslim children.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
holy water in Mecca
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Indonesian13%
Zamzam, a holy well located in Masjid al-Haram
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
An Islamic holy well in Mecca, supposed to have been miraculously generated by Allah when Abraham's infant son Ishmael was crying for water.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Zamzam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | listed | Zamzam | 26 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Zamzam | 15 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Zamzam | 58 |
| OM Oman | #109 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Zamzam | 21 |
| SO Somalia | #548 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 2 | Zamzam | 11 |
| US United States | — | 754 | 1 in 441K | 750 | Zamzam | 95 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Zamzam | 34 |
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; the swahili-book-names-zawawi-1993 register; Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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)
Zamzam 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.
holy spring
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Maltese, to sing
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 750 | #15,306 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #15,306 |
| SO Somalia | Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists | 2023 | 2 | #41 |
| KE Kenya | What's in a Name (Zawawi, 1993) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Zamzam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Zamzam in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zamzam.
- What does the name Zamzam mean, and where does it come from?
- Sacred well/place name in Mecca used for Muslim children. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Zamzam a male or female name?
- Zamzam is a female 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.
- How common is the name Zamzam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 754 people named Zamzam in 2020, about 1 in 441 thousand residents.
- How common is Zamzam compared with other names?
- In Oman, Zamzam is the 109th most common given name of 4,945 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, “Zamzam” — the 109th most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.