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Alam

#4,542 in 2025Boys' name

World, universe

Alam has been given to 370 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #4,542 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Alam, 2025

1 in 151,000

Alam over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alam: meaning, origin, and history

World, universe

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alam means

Alam means “world, universe”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 370 boys were recorded with the name Alam between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,525 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,512 in 2020 to #4,542 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,764 in 2015 to #4,542 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Alam?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,542
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alam sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alam was born before 2008 — so the typical Alam is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
370
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (125).

Is Alam rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,017
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,970
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,222
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.8%
Peak was 2024 (32)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,525
2024

Spellings of Alam

Alam is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 25.9% against Alam's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alam is used

Across 1910–2025, Alam was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,334,616 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alam around the world

Where Alam ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #2,357
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alam by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,542
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,970
Best rank ever
#3,525
2024
Peak year
2024
32 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
370
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Alam

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Alam

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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