The baby name Shaam is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /ʃaːm/ — "SHAHM".
The baby name Shaam is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /ʃaːm/ — "SHAHM".
Shaam is Hindi, Urdu in Origin.
Shaam has two overlapping South Asian and Semitic strands. In Indo‑Aryan languages it reflects Sanskrit śyāma, “dark, dusky, blue‑black,” a devotional epithet of Krishna celebrated in bhakti poetry from the medieval period onward. Through Hindi/Urdu phonology this yields Shyam/Shyām, and the spelling Shaam preserves the long vowel in transliteration. The name is chiefly masculine in India but can be unisex in some communities. Related forms include Shyam, Shyama (also an epithet of the goddess Kāli), Syam, and feminine derivatives Shyamala/Shyamali.
In Hindi‑Urdu everyday speech, shaam also means “evening, dusk,” via Persian and Arabic šām. This sense contributes a poetic, twilight imagery to the name. In Arabic contexts, the cognate Sham refers to Greater Syria/Damascus and is sometimes used as a feminine given name. Variants across regions include Shaam, Shyam, Shyām, Shyama, and Sham, offering both devotional and lyrical resonances.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MV | Girls | 0 | #34 | 2 | 2,021 |
| MV | Boys | 0 | #68 | 10 | 3,375 |
| QA | 0 | #106 | 1 | 7,011 | |
| OM | 0 | #121 | 1 | 6,215 | |
| Sweden | Girls | 2016 | #186 | 2 | 1,634 |
| AL | Girls | 0 | #227 | 1 | 4,141 |
| GR | Boys | 0 | #271 | 3 | 6,912 |
| Canada | Girls | 2017 | #288 | 9 | 3,011 |
| SA | 0 | #311 | 2 | 10,560 | |
| DK | Girls | 0 | #329 | 1 | 7,429 |
| JO | Girls | 0 | #331 | 9 | 7,570 |
| DK | Boys | 0 | #332 | 1 | 7,401 |
| QA | Girls | 0 | #342 | 2 | 15,378 |
| MY | 0 | #354 | 1 | 12,352 | |
| SD | Girls | 0 | #358 | 1 | 7,678 |
| GH | Boys | 0 | #361 | 1 | 8,138 |
| MU | Boys | 0 | #369 | 1 | 8,477 |
| JO | Boys | 0 | #387 | 3 | 7,057 |
| YE | 0 | #398 | 1 | 8,639 | |
| OM | Girls | 0 | #420 | 5 | 15,987 |
| SD | Boys | 0 | #464 | 3 | 10,523 |
| SY | 0 | #485 | 269 | 11,684 | |
| IQ | Girls | 0 | #522 | 4 | 11,303 |
| RU | Boys | 0 | #526 | 1 | 12,621 |
| PS | Girls | 0 | #540 | 8 | 10,981 |
| KW | Girls | 0 | #554 | 8 | 19,177 |
| LY | 0 | #557 | 3 | 12,703 | |
| PS | Boys | 0 | #560 | 2 | 10,655 |
| BH | 0 | #584 | 4 | 17,937 | |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #590 | 8 | 20,968 |
| BD | Boys | 0 | #604 | 2 | 10,045 |
| IL | Boys | 0 | #625 | 1 | 10,983 |
| IL | Girls | 0 | #640 | 6 | 11,648 |
| LB | 0 | #647 | 12 | 13,263 | |
| IN | Girls | 0 | #654 | 1 | 13,121 |
| QA | Boys | 0 | #691 | 17 | 18,093 |
| IQ | Boys | 0 | #692 | 6 | 13,071 |
| SG | Boys | 0 | #738 | 2 | 17,960 |
| KW | Boys | 0 | #757 | 13 | 18,755 |
| OM | Boys | 0 | #860 | 22 | 17,948 |
| EG | Boys | 0 | #872 | 15 | 15,035 |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #897 | 39 | 25,931 |
| United States | Girls | 2022 | #899 | 5 | 8,739 |
| NL | Boys | 0 | #901 | 51 | 5,873 |
| NL | Girls | 0 | #941 | 15 | 5,933 |
| EG | Girls | 0 | #946 | 14 | 14,742 |
| CO | Boys | 0 | #981 | 1 | 15,656 |
| IN | Boys | 0 | #990 | 12 | 16,750 |
| NG | Boys | 0 | #1,001 | 1 | 16,906 |
| PE | Girls | 0 | #1,010 | 1 | 14,861 |
| AE | Boys | 0 | #1,046 | 47 | 22,615 |
| MY | Girls | 0 | #1,068 | 5 | 24,821 |
| MY | Boys | 0 | #1,096 | 16 | 25,439 |
| MA | 0 | #1,199 | 1 | 20,986 | |
| TR | 0 | #1,199 | 13 | 19,440 | |
| ZA | Girls | 0 | #1,230 | 7 | 25,928 |
| DZ | 0 | #1,234 | 1 | 20,130 | |
| ZA | Boys | 0 | #1,265 | 8 | 25,619 |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,514 | 101 | 28,008 |
Shaam is popular in 38 countries — most recent births per country:
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