Bahram
given name · Latin script
Meaning: victory; conquest
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bahram is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 280K
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 930
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 930 (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
victory; conquest.
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bahram counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #533 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Bahram | 12 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 930 | — | Bahram | 8 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Bahram | 8 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Bahram | 74 |
| US United States | — | 1,188 | 1 in 280K | 1.2K | Bahram | 187 |
| SE Sweden | — | 328 | 1 in 31K | 328 | Bahram | 27 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bahram 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.
Mars, an
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, (bahraam): Mars. Iranian royal name
as a nameA 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vahram IVb. 400not in their usual nameThe 13th Sassanid Emperor (388–399)
- Bahram VIb. 600IRSasanian general and political leader (died 591)
- Bahram Mirzab. 1517IRgovernor of Khorasan
- Bahram Aryanab. 1906IRIranian general
- Bahram Mansurovb. 1911AZAzerbaijani musician (1911-1985)
- Bahram Beyzaib. 1938IRIranian film director (1938-2025)
- Bahram Ghassemib. 1956IRIranian diplomat
- Barham Salihb. 1960IQnot in their usual namePresident of Iraq (2018-2022)
- Bahram Bagirzadehb. 1972AZAzerbaijani comedian
- Bahram Radanb. 1979IRIranian actor
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(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,983 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 328 | #3,690 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 258 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 257 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 250 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 243 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 239 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 236 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 233 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 230 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 224 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 216 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bahram mean, and where does it come from?
- victory; conquest. Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Bahram a male or female name?
- Bahram 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 are other forms of the name Bahram?
- In the etymology graph, Behram, Bahrom and Behraam are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bahram have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Bahram in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bahram.
- How common is the name Bahram?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,188 people named Bahram in 2020, about 1 in 280 thousand residents.
- How common is Bahram compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Bahram is the 533rd most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bahramThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Bahram” — the 533rd most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.