as a Last Name
- 5,586
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Alam
Meaning & Origins
Muslim: 1. from a personal name based on Arabic ῾alam ‘emblem’, ‘banner’, hence an epithet for a distinguished man. ῾Alam-al-Huda (‘banner of guidance’) is an honorific title of the Prophet Muhammad. ῾Alam is generally found in names in combination with other words. 2. from a personal name based on Arabic ῾ālam, literally ‘world’. ῾Ālamgir (in combination with the Persian word gir ‘conqueror’) was a title of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618–1707), who ruled the Indian subcontinent from 1658 to 1707. This name is found in a variety of compounds, which are popular in the subcontinent, for example Badrul-῾῾Ālam ‘full moon of the world’.
| 6,178th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,586
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New York
- has the most people named Alam per capita
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