Alam Family History
- Alam Name Meaning
- 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. from a personal name based on Arabic ?alam, literally ‘world’. ?Alamgir (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-?Alam ‘full moon of the world’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 19,077 Historical Documents with Alam on Ancestry
- 12,643 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,526 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,417 Military Records
- 1,435 Immigration Records
- 1,056 Member Trees
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Number of Alam families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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