Alema
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
Alema is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 68K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 75K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 94Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alema 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 205K | 17 | Alema | 17 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Alema | 2 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Alema | 12 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Alema | 3 |
| US United States | 218 | 1 in 1.5M | 129 | Alema | 95 |
| SI Slovenia | 31 | 1 in 68K | 33 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | Alema | 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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)Alema 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.
In Latvian, pilsēta Irākā (Al ʻAlam), Salāh ed Dīna muhāfazā, Tigras kreisajā krastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Argentīnā (Alem), Misjonesas provinces dienvidu daļā
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 129 | #36,405 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 89 | #36,405 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 33 | #2,781 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 31 | #1,435 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 28 | #1,499 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 24 | #1,628 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 23 | #1,616 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1989 | 22 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 21 | #1,656 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 21 | #1,485 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 21 | #1,468 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 21 | #1,449 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Alema a male or female name?
- Alema is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Alema have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Alema in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alema.
- How common is the name Alema?
- In the United States, the national register counted 218 people named Alema in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Alema?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alemaThe 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, “Alema”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.