MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kalam mean?
Arabic kalām denotes speech or discourse and enters Urdu in that sense. Qalam, the pen word written कलम, is a separate word also present in Indian vocabulary.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कलाम
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कलम
4,150 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kalam in Indian usage
25,042 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (88%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,003 records (12%).
- Recorded as male: 22,039 records (88%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 397 |
| 1940s | 1,174 |
| 1950s | 2,522 |
| 1960s | 4,746 |
| 1970s | 6,320 |
| 1980s | 6,020 |
| 1990s | 3,758 |
| Other decades | 105 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 7,347 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,599 |
| Jharkhand | 2,526 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,486 |
| Maharashtra | 2,458 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,912 |
| Rajasthan | 719 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 706 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 460 |
| Haryana | 225 |
| Assam | 202 |
| Kerala | 101 |
| Other states | 301 |
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