Ghulam

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled กุลาม in TH Thailand and Gulom in KG Kyrgyzstan.

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●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ghulam is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name80K records spelled Ghulam9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United States, China

  Also written Ghulām, G̲h̲ulām, G̱ẖulām, Ġhulām, Ghūlām

• Spanish given name12K records spelled Ghulam11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Pakistan

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Ghulām, Ghúlâm, G̲h̲ulām, Ghulám, Ghulâm

• Indonesian given name7.9K records spelled Ghulam3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Ghulām

• Turkish given name3.1K records spelled Ghulam4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Afghanistan, Türkiye, Pakistan, India

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen

  Also written Ghulām

• Russian given name683 records spelled Ghulam21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Гулам, Gulam, Гулям, Гхулам, Ghoulam

45 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.

Other recorded senses●

Ghulam is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• slave; servant.

  as a name·Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

• In Arabic, servant, boy, youth. a, ols ,t43 aula "So, We gave him [Ibrahim] good news of a gentle son." (surat al- Saffat 37:101)

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In English, A personal guard to the shah of Persia.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Arabic, servant, boy, youth

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim 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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ghulam Rasool Alampurib. 1849Punjabi poet
• The Great Gamab. 1878PKnot in their usual nameIndian and Pakistani professional wrestler
• Gulam Yahya Daneshianb. 1906IRnot in their usual namepolitician, major general
• Ghulam Abbasb. 1909PKwriter (1909–1982)
• Ghulam Azamb. 1922BDBangladeshi politician (1922-2014)
• Ghulam Guardb. 1925INIndian cricketer (1925-1978)
• Ghulam Murshidb. 1940BDBangladeshi writer and journalist (1940–2024)
• Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvib. 1950INIndian Muslim Scholar
• Ghulam Sughrab. 2000PKPakistani activist
• Ghulam MustafaPKPakistan Amry general

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 105 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ghulam?

We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Ghulam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Ghulam have the most bearers?

Ghulam is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled ghulam.

How common is Ghulam compared with other names?

In Pakistan, Ghulam is the 8th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.

Is Ghulam a male or female name?

Ghulam is a male 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 does the name Ghulam mean?

Recorded meaning: young, youth