Boy name origins & meanings
- Hindi : The whole world
Boy name variations
How Popular Is The Name Alam
Family name origins & meanings
- Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic ‛alam ‘emblem’, ‘banner’, hence an epithet for a distinguished man. ‛Alam-al-Huda (‘banner of guidance’) is an honorific title of the Prophet Muhammad. Alam is generally found in names in combination with other words.
- Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic ‛ālam, literally ‘world’. ‛Ālamgir (in combination with the Persian word gir ‘conqueror’) was a title of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618–1707), who ruled the Indian subcontinent from 1658 to 1707. This name is found in a variety of compounds, which are popular in the subcontinent, for example Badrul-‛Ālam ‘full moon of the world’.