Bhama
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Kala (N)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bhɑmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bhama is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 591K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 969K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bhama itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 591K (inferred from the name graph)
225 named Bama, 2020
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kala (N)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bhama 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 225as Bama | 1 in 1.5M | 187 | Bhama | 52 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Bhama | 15 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Bhama | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Bhama | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 591K | — | Bhama | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Bhama | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
225 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling bama. 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; 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).
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bhama mean, and where does it come from?
- Kala (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Bhama?
- A machine transcription gives /bhɑmə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Bhama a male or female name?
- Bhama 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.
- In which country does Bhama have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 225 people named Bama, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bhama?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Bhama in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bhama?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bhamaThe 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, “Bhama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.