Alama
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sign
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alama/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alama is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 5.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 68K
- PLPoland1 in 95K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sign
Sources 1
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alama 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.
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Alama is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, mark, grade (indication for reference or measurement)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, mark (indication for reference or measurement)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, genitive singular of alam
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, incense from Shorea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, upe Spānijā (Alhama), Ebro labā krasta pieteka Larjohas autonomā apgabala austrumos
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Vicente Martínez Alamab. 1925ESSpanish association football player (1925-2018)
- Ragheb Alamab. 1962LBLebanese singer, composer, television personality
- Flor CastilloPEnot in their usual namePeruvian actress and drama teacher
- Angela AlamaUSresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 476 | #9,540 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 373 | #10,109 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 373 | #10,099 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 208 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 208 | #15,808 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 196 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 196 | #16,470 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 24 | #13,047 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Alama mean, and where does it come from?
- sign Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names.
- How do you pronounce Alama?
- A machine transcription gives /alama/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Alama have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Alama in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alama.
- How common is the name Alama?
- In India, the national register counted 476 people named Alama, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
- How common is Alama compared with other names?
- In Peru, Alama is the 777th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alama?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alamaThe 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, “Alama” — the 777th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.