Ahlam
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ahlam is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Korea. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ahlam är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’drömmar’.
- MAMorocco1 in 1.7K◐
- SYSyria1 in 2.7K
- KRSouth Korea1 in 5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.8K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 179 ●
- 1 in 7.6K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
77K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 아람 in KR South Korea, Ахлям in RU Russia and อะห์ลาม in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Ahlam är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’drömmar’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #991 | 12,531 | 11K rec. | — | — | 아람 | 57 |
| SY Syria | #307 | 12,346 | 13K rec. | — | — | Ahlam | 17 |
| MA Morocco | #173 | 9,066 | 11K rec. | — | listed | Ahlam | 68 |
| EG Egypt | #818 | 5,128 | 2.3K rec. | — | listed | Ahlam | 51 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 4,440 | 4.3K rec. | — | — | Ahlam | 24 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 4,440 | 4.6K rec. | — | — | Ahlam | 20 |
| US United States | — | 3,584 | 9K rec. | 1 in 93K | 3.6K | Ahlam | 151 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #356 | 3,191 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Ahlam | 88 |
| DZ Algeria | #248 | 2,021 | 2.5K rec. | — | listed | Ahlam | 36 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,760 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Ahlam | 47 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,350△ | 457 rec. | 1 in 7.6K | 1.4K | Ahlam | 20 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #432 | 908 | 798 rec. | — | — | Ahlam | 74 |
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Languages●
- Arabic38K45%
- French10K12%
- English5.5K6%
- Spanish5.2K6%
- Turkish4.3K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 37,959 | 45% |
| French | 10,055 | 12% |
| English | 5,495 | 6% |
| Spanish | 5,236 | 6% |
| Turkish | 4,271 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ahlam 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, pl. of Hulm ats, dream
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, plural of Hulm: dream
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
‘Dream’, ‘vision of perfection’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first 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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 14 |
| 1984 | 11 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 12 |
| 1987 | 11 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 16 |
| 1990 | 16 |
| 1991 | 21 |
| 1992 | 16 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 15 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 18 |
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 24 |
| 2001 | 17 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 17 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 21 |
| 2007 | 29 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2009 | 19 |
| 2010 | 24 |
| 2011 | 19 |
| 2012 | 37 |
| 2013 | 35 |
| 2014 | 36 |
| 2015 | 42 |
| 2016 | 39 |
| 2017 | 48 |
| 2018 | 36 |
| 2019 | 43 |
| 2020 | 33 |
| 2021 | 35 |
| 2022 | 35 |
| 2023 | 39 |
| 2024 | 54 |
| 2025 | 32 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ahlam Elgretlyb. 1948EGEgyptian actress (1948–2021)
- Ahlam Khudrb. 1950SDSudanese human rights protest leader
- Ahlam Lemsefferb. 1950MAMoroccan painter
- Ahlam Helmyb. 1955EGactor
- Ahlam Mosteghanemib. 1959DZAlgerian writer
- Ahlamb. 1968AEEmirati actress and singer
- Ahlam Shiblib. 1970ILPalestinian photographer from Israel (born 1970)
- Aḥlām Bishārātb. 1975PSPalestinian writer
- Ahlam Tamimib. 1980JOPalestinian /Jordanian Islamic terrorist; assisted in carrying out the 2001 Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem
- Ahlam Youssefb. 1999EGEgyptian karateka
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 50 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 209 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ahlam?
- We estimate roughly 8.8 thousand people bear Ahlam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ahlam have the most bearers?
- Ahlam is most frequently recorded in South Korea, where it is most often spelled 아람.
- How common is Ahlam compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Ahlam is the 991st most common given name of 65,496 given names recorded there.
- Is Ahlam a male or female name?
- Ahlam is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Ahlam mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ahlam är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’drömmar’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ahlam” — the 991st most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.