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73 famous people named Gautam found on Wikipedia.
642 male in US.
Most recent ranking:
6104-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
2812-th in year 1979
Used in: Indian
The name Gautam (also transliterated as Gautama or Gauthama and a vrddhi patronymic of Gotama) is one of the ancient Indian names and is derived from the Sanskrit roots "gŐ(गः)" and "tama (तम)". "Tama" means "darkness" and "gŐ" means inter alia "bright light". Together, they indicate the one, who dispels darkness (ignorance) by his brilliance (spiritual knowledge).
The name Gautam is a masculine name. The feminine counterpart is known as Gautami.
Credited to the great sage, a descendent of Mahaṛṣi Āngira, the name Gautam might have come into limelight first during the Vedic period. There were several great and renowned rishis, who belonged to the Gautam gotra but all of them assumed the generic name of Gautam only. The name had a conjuring effect by virtue of the merits of the great Vedic rishi Gautam and his illustrious descendent rishis so much so that, numerous other persons sought to assume this name in ancient times.
A Gautam gotriya Brahmin named, Indrabhuti of Gochchar village of the ancient Magadha kingdom, who became the chief disciple of Lord Mahavira, the 24th Jain Tirthankara, was called as Gautam Swami.
Siddhartha (of Buddhism) was born in the Shakya clan that belonged to the warrior (Kṣatriya) caste. He was called as Gautama to perpetuate the name of his foster mother, Gautami for the love she bestowed on him
The current naming practices in India can be traced to the massive advent of European in India during the 18th century. Since the intractability of the Indian naming methods and their meanings confounded the Europeans, they supposedly introduced the naming method, of having first name, middle name, and surname in their urge to influence, modernize and develop the Indian system accordingly.
Lord Buddha.
Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
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1 | Yami Gautam | 1988 | Indian actress |
2 | Gautam Gambhir | 1981 | Indian cricket player. |
3 | Gautam Gulati | 1984 | Indian film and TV actor |
4 | Gautam Rode | 1977 | Indian actor, model |
5 | Rashmi Gautam | 1989 | Actress |
6 | Surilie Gautam | Indian actress | |
7 | Gautam Adani | 1962 | Indian businessman |
8 | Mukesh Gautam | Film director | |
9 | Gautam Singhania | 1965 | Indian businessman |
10 | Gautam Gupta | 1988 | |
11 | Gautam Thapar | 1960 | Indian businessman |
12 | Gautam Joglekar | Indian film director | |
13 | Gautam Chattopadhyay | 1948 | Bengali singer, songwriter, bassist, and composer. |
14 | Gautam Sharma | Model, Actor | |
15 | Gautam Rajadhyaksha | 1950 | Indian photographer |
16 | Sudarshan Gautam | 1978 | First armless person to summit Mount Everest without the use of prosthetics |
17 | Gautam Bambawale | ||
18 | Gautam Sanyal | 1951 | Civil servant |
19 | Gautam Biswas | 1956 | Indian academic |
20 | Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju | 1952 | Indian chemist |
21 | Gautam Deb | 1954 | Indian politician |
22 | Gautam Punj | Indian businessman | |
23 | Gautam Shah | Indian politician | |
24 | Satish Kumar Gautam | Indian politician | |
25 | Gautam Bhattacharya | Indian sports journalist | |
26 | Gautam Bhatia | 1952 | Indian architecture writer |
27 | Ravindra Gautam | ||
28 | Bam Dev Gautam | 1944 | Nepal politician |
29 | Sheela Gautam | 1931 | Member of Parliament |
30 | Gautam Raju | ||
31 | Gautam Kalita | Indian bodybuilder | |
32 | Gautam Kaul | 1951 | Professor of Finance |
33 | Gautam Navlakha | A civil liberties, democratic, and human rights activist, and a journalist | |
34 | Kul Gautam | Nepalese diplomat | |
35 | Gautam Malkani | 1976 | British writer |
36 | Dhwani Gautam | 1985 | |
37 | Gautam Sarabhai | 1917 | |
38 | Muralidharen Gautam | 1986 | Indian cricketer |
39 | Bishwo Gautam | 1982 | |
40 | Rajendra Pal Gautam | Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) | |
41 | Laxmi Gautam | 1979 | |
42 | Gautam Bhadra | 1948 | |
43 | Gautam Choudhury | 1940 | Bengali musician, writer and archivist |
44 | Sangh Priya Gautam | Indian politician | |
45 | Gautam Mukhopadhaya | 1956 | Ambassador of India |
46 | Raj Kumar Singh Gautam | 1966 | Indian politician |
47 | Subash Gautam | Indian medical researcher | |
48 | Padmanabha Gautam | 1933 | |
49 | Chintaman Rao Gautam | 1899 | Indian politician |
50 | Gautam Bhan | ||
51 | Shiv Raj Gautam | Nepalese politician | |
52 | Gautam Chabukswar | Indian politician | |
53 | Gautam Shiknis | 1971 | Indian film executive |
54 | Gautam Vaghela | 1936 | Indian artist |
55 | Shiv Gautam | 1988 | Indian cricketer |
56 | Gautam Bora | ||
57 | Atul Gautam | 1973 | Nepalese musician |
58 | Gautam Kalpoe | 1991 | Footballer |
59 | Gautam Dutta | 1973 | |
60 | Dhruba Chandra Gautam | ||
61 | Gautam Kumar Shome | 1960 | |
62 | Gautam Shome | 1963 | |
63 | Gautam Das | ||
64 | Rishikesh Gautam | 1941 | Nepalese politician |
65 | Amitkumar Gautam | 1995 | |
66 | Gautam Mitra | ||
67 | Gautam Vadhera | 1972 | |
68 | Gautam Raj Khadka | ||
69 | Laxmi Nath Gautam | ||
70 | Gautam Kumar | ||
71 | Shatrughan Gautam | ||
72 | Sanjay Kumar Gautam | Nepalese politician | |
73 | Rajesh Gautam |