Gautam
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gautam is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘descendant of GOTAM’, a name of the historical Buddha and of a major Jain saint, therefore especially favoured by Buddhists and Jains.
- USUnited States1 in 145K(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 8.1Kas Goutam
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 8.7K
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 Gautam 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 named Goutam, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Goutam in US United States, BD Bangladesh, KW Kuwait and 4 more and Gotam in PK Pakistan.
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)
Sanskrit: ‘descendant of GOTAM’, a name of the historical Buddha and of a major Jain saint, therefore especially favoured by Buddhists and Jains.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gautam 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 | #576 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Goutam | 46 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Goutam | 19 |
| US United States | — | 2,298 | 1 in 145K | 3.8K | Goutam | 274 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Goutam | 19 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Gotam | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Goutam | 46 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Goutam | 6 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Goutam | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Gautam is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name from Sanskrit.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- The Buddhab. 563NPnot in their usual nameIndian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
- Goutam Halderb. 1955INnot in their usual nameIndian director
- Gautam Adanib. 1962INIndian businessman
- Gautam Gambhirb. 1981INIndian politician and former cricketer
- Gautam Gulatib. 1984INIndian film and TV actor
- Yami Gautamb. 1988INIndian actress
- Gautam Bhatiab. 1988INIndian scholar of constitutional law, essayist and science fiction author (1988-), resident in the UK
- Archana Gautamb. 1995INIndian film actress, model and International Beauty Pageant Winner
- Gautam ShahINIndian politician
- Gautam RanaAmerican diplomat
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,355 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,839 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 406 | #48,776 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Gautam mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘descendant of GOTAM’, a name of the historical Buddha and of a major Jain saint, therefore especially favoured by Buddhists and Jains. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Gautam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Goutam in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gautam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,298 people named Gautam in 2020, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
- How common is Gautam compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Gautam is the 576th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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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, “Gautam” — the 576th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.