Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Raam is a surname, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Punjabi, written in the Latin script.
rarermore common
INIndia1 in 64◐
THThailand1 in 3.1K
SGSingapore1 in 3.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Locally spelled Ramin IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 19 more, Romin PH Philippines, CH Switzerland, ริมin TH Thailand and Ramain SY Syria.
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 across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Related names1 related name◐
Where it comes from
1
The earlier name it descends from
Raam
Relations come from the etymology graph; the language, country and size beside each name are how that name is actually used in the corpus. Click any name to open it.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
Hindi4.5M90%
Punjabi360K7%
Marathi91K2%
10K1%
Urdu8.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
Hindi
4,455,613
90%
Punjabi
360,079
7%
Marathi
90,945
2%
10,438
1%
Urdu
8,906
1%
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◐
Raam is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.
English surname2.8K records spelled Raam6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Netherlands
Languages: English, Dutch, German
Also written Raàm, Rààm
Estonian surname745 records spelled Raam3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Estonia, Finland
Languages: Estonian, Finnish
Also written Rààm
Spanish surname220 records spelled Raam3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Mexico, India, United States
Also written Rāām, Raám
Hebrew given name211 records spelled Raam4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Israel, India, United States, Pakistan
Also written רעם, Rääm, Ra'Am
French surname143 records spelled Raam10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France
Also written Raâm, Raãm, Řããm, Räâm, Rààm
34 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●
Raam is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, window
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, frame
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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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Raam in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 2009–2025
Year
records
2009
7
2012
6
2013
7
2015
7
2016
7
2017
5
2018
8
2020
10
2021
8
2022
8
2023
15
2024
17
2025
17
USSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 13 years between 2009–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
Voldemar Raamb. 1880EEEstonian pedagogue (1880-1946)
Villem Raamb. 1910EEEstonian historian (1910-1996)
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).
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About this data
● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated
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 pageMondonomo, “Raam” — the most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.