Ulum
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Ululuk, haşmet, büyük gösteriş
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ulum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 226K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 268K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ululuk, haşmet, büyük gösteriş.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ulum 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #670 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Ulum | 108 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Ulum | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 268K | — | Ulum | 17 |
| US United States | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | listed | Ulum | 17 |
| IN India | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 24M | 4 | Ulum | 5 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 671K | — | Ulum | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 6 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Ulum is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, swamp
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In ang, dative plural of ūle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xgn-pro, болото
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #189,776 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #10,696 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ulum mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ululuk, haşmet, büyük gösteriş.
- In which country does Ulum have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Ulum in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ulum.
- How common is the name Ulum?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6 people named Ulum in 2026, about 1 in 6.4 million residents.
- How common is Ulum compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Ulum is the 670th most common surname of 451,395 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, “Ulum” — the 670th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.