Lokum
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Turkish delight
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lokum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 58Kas โล่ห์คำ(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 640K
- INIndia1 in 1.1Mas Lokam
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lokum itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 640K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 named โล่ห์คำ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lokam in IN India, US United States, โล่ห์คำ in TH Thailand and Lohkham in SE Sweden.
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)
Turkish delight
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lokum 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 58K | #568,996 | โล่ห์คำ | 52 |
| IN India | 1,194as Lokam | 1 in 1.1M | 1.2K | Lokam | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 27 | 1 in 640K | 27 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Lokam | 8 |
| SE Sweden | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Lohkham | 3 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Lokum is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, Turkish delight (traditional sweet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, indefinite dative plural of loka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, lodging (place to live or lodge)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, bog (coarse slang: a toilet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Līkloču veidā, ar līkumiem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 27 | #43,000 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Lokum mean, and where does it come from?
- Turkish delight Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lokum have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named โล่ห์คำ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lokum most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lokum is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 640 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lokum?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 27 people named Lokum in 2007, about 1 in 640 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lokumThe 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, “Lokum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.