Nilama

given name · Latin script

Meaning: of dark blue colour; emerald; sapphire; indigo; blue topaz

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nilama is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

of dark blue colour; emerald; sapphire; indigo; blue topaz

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nilama counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Nilama is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—8Nilama10
US United States——Nilama2

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. 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)

Nilama is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Thailand, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Thai, Swahili

    Also written Ninama, นิลนามะ, Nilnama, Ninnama, Nināmā

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nīlama

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Nīlama

26 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Nilama
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1980162—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1983147—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1977147—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1976146—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1975139—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1979137—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1978136—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1974136—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1988123—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1984123—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1982121—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1973121—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nilama mean, and where does it come from?
of dark blue colour; emerald; sapphire; indigo; blue topaz Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
Is Nilama a male or female name?
Nilama 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 Nilama have the most bearers?
Nilama is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled nilama.

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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, “Nilama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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