MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kayum mean?
Kayum continues Arabic qayyum, an intensive word for sustaining or maintaining existence. Al-Qayyum is a divine epithet in the Quran, giving the personal name its devotional vocabulary.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
क़य्यूम
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कयूम
7,418 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kayum in Indian usage
3,348 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (93.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 228 records (6.8%).
- Recorded as male: 3,120 records (93.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 351 |
| 1960s | 762 |
| 1970s | 916 |
| 1980s | 824 |
| 1990s | 309 |
| Other decades | 186 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 1,035 |
| Bihar | 768 |
| Maharashtra | 420 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 420 |
| Rajasthan | 313 |
| Haryana | 177 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 108 |
| Other states | 107 |
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
- Wiktionary: قيوم (qayyūm) ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.