Nizam
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: order, arrangement (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 32 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/nizam/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated
Nizam is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Nizam is also written নিজাম in Bengali.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 6K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 6K
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 Nizam 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈60,000 named Nijam, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nizam in other scripts: Latin and Bengali
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nijam in IN India, BH Bahrain, ID Indonesia.
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.
How to pronounce Nizam
- Malay:/nizam/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Turkish:/ni.zam/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nizam is read
(measured from records)Nizam is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Malay18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nizam in Malay.
- Turkish17%
order, arrangement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
1. Kural.2. Düzen, tertip, sıra. 3. Kanun.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Hindi15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nizam in Hindi.
- Urdu11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nizam in Urdu.
- English9.0%
The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nizam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 279 | Nijam | 105 |
| BD Bangladesh | #309 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Nizam | 82 |
| PK Pakistan | #294 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Nizam | 57 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Nijam | 27 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Nizam | 60 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 29 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 379 | 1 in 878K | 413 | Nizam | 69 |
| BH Bahrain | #703 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Nijam | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 126 | 1 in 6K | 126 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)Nizam is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, order; arrangement; discipline; ruler; system
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, order, system
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Disciplinarian, arranger.
as a nameThe African book of 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)- Salim Nizamb. 1970TRTurkish writer (born 1970)
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)56 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 32 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Nizam come from?
- The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nizam?
- It depends on the language: in Malay /nizam/; in Turkish /ni.zam/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Nizam a male or female name?
- Nizam is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Nizam mean?
- In Turkish, order, arrangement
- Which countries have the most people named Nizam?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Nijam in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nizam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named Nizam in 2020, about 1 in 878 thousand residents.
- How common is Nizam compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Nizam is the 294th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nizam?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nizamThe 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, “Nizam” — ranked 14086th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.