Śalam
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Śalam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Manipuri ꯁꯂꯥꯝ (salām).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 5.2K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.4K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Salam in IN India, PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh and 4 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)
Manipuri ꯁꯂꯥꯝ (salām)
Sources 5
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Śalam 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 | #67 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Salam | 87 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Salam | 23 |
| PK Pakistan | #163 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | listed | Salam | 75 |
| IN India | #828 | 11,036 | 1 in 120K | 11K | Salam | 123 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Salam | 13 |
| AF Afghanistan | #666 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Salam | 14 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Salam | 2 |
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. 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 Śalam mean, and where does it come from?
- Manipuri ꯁꯂꯥꯝ (salām) Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Śalam a male or female name?
- Śalam 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 Śalam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 144 thousand people named Śalam in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salam.
- How common is the name Śalam?
- In India, the national register counted 11,036 people named Śalam, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
- How common is Śalam compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Śalam is the 67th most common surname of 12,312 surnames 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/%C5%9BalamThe 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, “Śalam” — the 67th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.