Golam
given name · Bangla · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Golam is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script.
- BDBangladesh1 in 541◐
- INIndia1 in 30K
- MYMalaysia1 in 54K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.1K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 138 ●
- 1 in 26K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
63K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Gholam in NO Norway and Goolam in ZA South Africa.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #45 | 525,303 | 5.9K rec. | — | listed | Golam | 117 |
| IN India | — | 108,996 | 46K rec. | — | 2.5K | Golam | 63 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,195 | 301 rec. | — | — | Golam | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,048 | 502 rec. | — | — | Golam | 53 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 723 | 179 rec. | — | — | Golam | 19 |
| AF Afghanistan | #186 | 647 | 699 rec. | — | — | Golam | 6 |
| US United States | — | 584 | 6.5K rec. | 1 in 570K | 584 | Golam | 138 |
| AU Australia | — | 554 | 559 rec. | — | 1 | Golam | 43 |
| SE Sweden | — | 390△ | 86 rec. | 1 in 26K | 390 | Golam | 15 |
| IR Iran | — | 244 | 174 rec. | — | — | Golam | 12 |
| SG Singapore | — | 228 | 316 rec. | — | — | Golam | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | 188 | 186 rec. | — | — | Golam | 31 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Bangla326K43%
- English264K35%
- 115K15%
- Hindi46K6%
- Arabic1.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bangla | 326,230 | 43% |
| English | 263,765 | 35% |
| 114,772 | 15% | |
| Hindi | 45,546 | 6% |
| Arabic | 1,740 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1933 | 3 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 4 |
| 1937 | 4 |
| 1938 | 6 |
| 1939 | 2 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1941 | 6 |
| 1942 | 7 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 4 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 3 |
| 1949 | 4 |
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1951 | 8 |
| 1952 | 12 |
| 1953 | 4 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 16 |
| 1957 | 19 |
| 1958 | 20 |
| 1959 | 11 |
| 1960 | 7 |
| 1961 | 21 |
| 1962 | 14 |
| 1963 | 11 |
| 1964 | 21 |
| 1965 | 16 |
| 1966 | 25 |
| 1967 | 17 |
| 1968 | 17 |
| 1969 | 29 |
| 1970 | 14 |
| 1971 | 18 |
| 1972 | 21 |
| 1973 | 20 |
| 1974 | 35 |
| 1975 | 23 |
| 1976 | 19 |
| 1977 | 17 |
| 1978 | 21 |
| 1979 | 24 |
| 1980 | 19 |
| 1981 | 24 |
| 1982 | 25 |
| 1983 | 31 |
| 1984 | 45 |
| 1985 | 33 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 40 |
| 1988 | 30 |
| 1989 | 42 |
| 1990 | 39 |
| 1991 | 42 |
| 1992 | 43 |
| 1993 | 59 |
| 1994 | 35 |
| 1995 | 35 |
| 1996 | 17 |
| 1997 | 15 |
| 1998 | 15 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 16 |
| 2015 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 80 years between 1922–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Golam Aziz Zilanib. 1950BDbadminton player
- Golam Reza Bagherib. 1975IRIranian badminton player
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.5K | #2,679 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 584 | #18,408 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 91 | #9,090 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 59 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 53 | #7,711 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 50 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 48 | #6,130 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 47 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1984 | 45 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 44 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 44 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 43 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 196 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Golam?
- We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Golam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Golam have the most bearers?
- Golam is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled golam.
- How common is Golam compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Golam is the 45th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Golam a male or female name?
- Golam 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.
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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.
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, “Golam” — the 45th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.