Gaddam

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɡədɑm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gaddam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Telugu గడ్డము (gaḍḍamu, “beard”).

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 83K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 486K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 117K

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.

India (measured from records)

15,992 people

Sources
193 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)

India

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Borrowed from Telugu గడ్డము (gaḍḍamu, “beard”).

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gaddam 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.

Where Gaddam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India15,9921 in 83K16KGaddam143
US United States6851 in 486K1.4KGaddam193
ID Indonesia≈580 est.≈1 in 463K—Gaddam2
AO Angola≈170 est.≈1 in 187K—Gaddam1
GB United Kingdom≈110 est.≈1 in 579K18Gaddam54
SE Sweden281 in 364K28Gaddam7
DK Denmark141 in 419K14——
EE Estonia≈11 est.≈1 in 117Klisted—1

15,992 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gaddam is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gaḍḍaṃ

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

Formalआदरणीय श्री Gaddam जी,Respected Gaddam ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Gaddam जी,Hi Gaddam, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Gaddam
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—19K#67
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—16K#727
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,411
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010685#33,343
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000251#72,237
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—28#19,976
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200218#97,089
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—14#30,428
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—8#5,227
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#48,334
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Gaddam mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Telugu గడ్డము (gaḍḍamu, “beard”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Gaddam?
A machine transcription gives /ɡədɑm/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Gaddam have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Gaddam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaddam.
Where is Gaddam most common?
Gaddam is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 83 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gaddam?
In India, the national register counted 15,992 people named Gaddam, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.

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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, “Gaddam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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