Isĺam
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Isĺam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed around 1610 from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م (s-l-m).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 23(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 194
- QAQatar≈1 in 268
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #573 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23 (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Islam in IN India, BD Bangladesh, PK Pakistan and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed around 1610 from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م (s-l-m).
Sources 9
- African Muslim Names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Isĺam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #2 | ≈7,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 23 | listed | Islam | 224 |
| PK Pakistan | #89 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Islam | 105 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #18 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 560 | — | Islam | 111 |
| IN India | #161 | 40,445 | 1 in 33K | 40K | Islam | 181 |
| MY Malaysia | #72 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Islam | 66 |
| OM Oman | #7 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 323 | — | Islam | 30 |
| QA Qatar | #13 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 268 | — | Islam | 50 |
| BH Bahrain | #7 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 194 | — | Islam | 29 |
| KW Kuwait | #32 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 397 | — | Islam | 48 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Isĺam mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed around 1610 from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م (s-l-m). Recorded by African Muslim Names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Isĺam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 million people named Isĺam in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled islam.
- How common is the name Isĺam?
- In India, the national register counted 40,445 people named Isĺam, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Isĺam compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Isĺam is the 2nd most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Isĺam” — the 2nd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.