MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bam mean?
Bam is the eastern form of Vama, an adjective meaning lovely or dear. Vāma is also a name of Shiva, giving the personal name an established divine referent.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बाम
Conventional spelling
Bengali
বাম
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bam in Indian usage
4,267 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (86.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 573 records (13.4%).
- Recorded as male: 3,694 records (86.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 128 |
| 1940s | 320 |
| 1950s | 469 |
| 1960s | 749 |
| 1970s | 894 |
| 1980s | 897 |
| 1990s | 669 |
| Other decades | 141 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Assam | 3,446 |
| Maharashtra | 547 |
| Other states | 274 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, vāma, p. 941,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.