Gautam
Gautama, also spelled Gautam, Goutam, Gautham, Gowtham, and Gotam is a given name and surname of Sanskrit origin. It means "relative of Gotama".
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Bengali
Meaning & Origin of Gautam
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Gautama, also spelled Gautam, Goutam, Gautham, Gowtham, and Gotam is a given name and surname of Sanskrit origin. It means "relative of Gotama".
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Bengali
The Story of Gautam
Gautam first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1972, with 8 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2008: 28 births, good for #3,743 nationwide. About 30% of every Gautam on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Gautam last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 702 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Gautam
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Gautam. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Goutam
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About the name Gautam
Gautam is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1972 and has accumulated 702 births in the dataset. Gautam's peak popularity came in 2008 when it ranked #3,743. Use the chart and map above to compare Gautam's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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