Ilham
Arabic in root, from a word for "inspiration". It stays rare in Poland: only about 100 people carry it, mostly men, and no boy or girl was given it last year.
Ilham Pronunciation
Ilham is pronounced EEL-khahm (/ˈilxam/).
What Ilham means
Where Ilham comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ilham comes from Arabic, from the word ilhām (إلهام), which names inspiration itself. In Arabic the term suggests something breathed in, a thought that arrives from outside the person who thinks it. That sense of arrival is the meaning the name still keeps, and in English it reads plainly as inspiration.
The name is at home across the Arabic-speaking world, and it passed into Turkish and Azerbaijani use, where the spelling İlham with a dotted capital is common. One documented bearer is İlham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan since 2003. On an official form at the urząd it needs no translation beside it.
The meaning stays close to the word. A Polish reader meets it as natchnienie, inspiracja. Ilham is, before anything else, a noun that means inspiration.
How many people are named Ilham
1 in 242570 men in Poland is named Ilham. 101 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3430 among male names.
Ilham as a middle name
Ilham is a first name for 101 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 94/6 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3897th, between Ike (7) and Imad (7).
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#3895 Hygin7
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#3896 Ike7
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#3897 Ilham7
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#3898 Imad7
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#3899 Indra7