Khayyam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: tent-maker. Umar Khayyam: see Umar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaɪjæm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Khayyam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 6.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 112K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 140K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
tent-maker. Umar Khayyam: see Umar
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khayyam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 112K | listed | Khayyam | 13 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Khayyam | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 5 | Khayyam | 78 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Khayyam | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Khayyam | 35 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | listed | Khayyam | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 22 | 1 in 1.7M | 22 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 899K | 9 | — | — |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #497 | — | — | — | Khayyam | 1 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Khayyam 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 Arabic, tent-maker
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Omar Khayyamb. 1048IRPersian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
- Hassan Khayyamb. 1900USactor (1900–1964)
- Amina Khayyamb. 1980BDbangladeshi-born British dancer
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)
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Khayyam mean, and where does it come from?
- tent-maker. Umar Khayyam: see Umar Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Khayyam?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɪjæm/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Khayyam a male or female name?
- Khayyam is a male 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 Khayyam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Khayyam in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khayyam.
- How common is the name Khayyam?
- In Poland, the national register counted 22 people named Khayyam in 2026, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Khayyam compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Khayyam is the 497th most common given name of 1,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khayyamThe 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, “Khayyam” — the 497th most common given name in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.