Neelam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Zafiro
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɛɫəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neelam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 140K(measured from records)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 18Kas Nilam
- PKPakistan≈1 in 11K
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 Neelam 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nilam in IN India, ID Indonesia, NP Nepal and 2 more.
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)
Zafiro
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neelam 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 | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Neelam | 49 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Nilam | 113 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 1 | Nilam | 29 |
| US United States | — | 2,375 | 1 in 140K | 2.3K | Neelam | 257 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Nilam | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Nilam | 13 |
| GY Guyana | — | 30 | 1 in 25K | 30 | — | 2 |
| IN India | #183 | — | — | 6.1K | Nilam | 200 |
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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Neelam Saxena Chandrab. 1969INIndian writer
- Neelum Sharmab. 1969INnot in their usual nameIndian television news presenter
- Neelam Vermab. 1980CACanadian model
- Neelam Gillb. 1995GBBritish fashion model
- Neelam Matadinb. 1997SRSurinamese singer
- Neelam Deob. 2000INIndian diplomat
- Neelam Azadb. 2000researcher
- Neelam GiriINIndian pediatric hematologist/oncologist and physician-scientist
- Neelam JainUSPh.D. University of Minnesota-Minneapolis 1995
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 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,684 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49 | #6,684 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 30 | #564 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 6 | — |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #234 |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Neelam?
- A machine transcription gives /nɛɫəm/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Neelam mean, and where does it come from?
- Zafiro Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How common is the name Neelam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,375 people named Neelam in 2020, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
- How common is Neelam compared with other names?
- In India, Neelam is the 183rd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Neelam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Neelam in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neelam.
- Is Neelam a male or female name?
- Neelam 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.
- What are other forms of the name Neelam?
- In the etymology graph, Nilam is a form of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Neelam?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neelamThe 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, “Neelam” — the 183rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.