Seelam
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Seelam is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common given name.
- OMOman≈1 in 140as Salim(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 584as Salim
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 990as Salim
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 Seelam 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)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 140 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 named Salim, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est., as Salim
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Salim in OM Oman, DZ Algeria, BD Bangladesh and 2 more and Saleem in PK Pakistan, US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seelam 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 | #63 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 990 | listed | Salim | 91 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Saleem | 147 |
| DZ Algeria | #29 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 584 | listed | Salim | 89 |
| TZ Tanzania | #282 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Salim | 70 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Salim | 45 |
| OM Oman | #2 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 140 | — | Salim | 112 |
| US United States | — | 5,605as Salem | 1 in 59K | 8.8K | Saleem | 324 |
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; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 448 | #50,441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 206 | #89,753 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Seelam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 164 thousand people named Salim in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Seelam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,605 people named Salem in 2020, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Seelam compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Seelam is the 63rd most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Seelam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seelamThe 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, “Seelam” — the 63rd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.