Ălam
surname · Latin script
Ălam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Muslim surname from the Arabic male personal name ‘Alam, meaning either ‘banner’ or ‘world’.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 102(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 344
- QAQatar≈1 in 404
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)
- #245 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 102 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Alam in IN India, PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh and 5 more.
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)
Muslim surname from the Arabic male personal name ‘Alam, meaning either ‘banner’ or ‘world’
Sources 3
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ălam 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 | #8 | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 102 | listed | Alam | 195 |
| PK Pakistan | #52 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 2 | Alam | 122 |
| IN India | #44 | 143,481 | 1 in 9.2K | 143K | Alam | 223 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #14 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 615 | listed | Alam | 100 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #12 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 507 | — | Alam | 102 |
| QA Qatar | #22 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 404 | — | Alam | 50 |
| KW Kuwait | #36 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 534 | — | Alam | 36 |
| BH Bahrain | #14 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 344 | — | Alam | 33 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ălam mean, and where does it come from?
- Muslim surname from the Arabic male personal name ‘Alam, meaning either ‘banner’ or ‘world’ Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and A Dictionary of Muslim Names and 1 other source.
- In which country does Ălam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Ălam in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alam.
- How common is the name Ălam?
- In India, the national register counted 143,481 people named Ălam, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Ălam compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Ălam is the 8th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%83lamThe 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, “Ălam” — the 8th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.