Given name & surname
Islam
“submission, surrender”
Islam is a masculine given name from Arabic, meaning “submission, surrender.” It is used in English and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic إِسْلَام (“submission, surrender”), from Arabic أَسْلَمَ, from Arabic س ل م.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Islam through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 817
- 689 boys · 128 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 36 babies
- 2025
- 25
- #4,181 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +70%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 25 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,181 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 70.1% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,542 as a first name in 2020; 17,534 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Islam’s family of names
In Bengali usage, Islam is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ইসলাম.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 6
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 15
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Islam
- Islam Karimov1st President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1938–2016)
- Islam SlimaniAlgerian association football playerborn 1988
- Islam MakhachevRussian mixed martial arts fighterborn 1991
- Islam BayramukovOlympic wrestlerborn 1971
- Islam DudaevAlbanian wrestlerborn 1995
- Islam SatpayevKazakhstani sport shooterborn 1998
- Islam AbbasovAzerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestlerborn 1996
- Islam FeruzSomalian and Scottish footballerborn 1995
- Islam El ShehabyEgyptian judokaborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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