Gopalakrishnan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡoʊpɑɫækɹɪʃnən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gopalakrishnan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Tamil கோபாலகிருஷ்ண (kōpālakiruṣṇa).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 392K
- INIndia1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Tamil கோபாலகிருஷ்ண (kōpālakiruṣṇa).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gopalakrishnan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Gopalakrishnan | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Gopalakrishnan | 34 |
| AO Angola | #774 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Gopalakrishnan | 2 |
| IN India | — | 987 | 1 in 1.3M | 987 | Gopalakrishnan | 182 |
| US United States | — | 849 | 1 in 392K | 1.4K | Gopalakrishnan | 238 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Gopalakrishnan | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Gopalakrishnan | 39 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- R. Gopalakrishnanb. 1949INIndian businessman
- Kris Gopalakrishnanb. 1955INPadmasree awarded 2011
- R. GopalakrishnanSIresearcher
- Anand GopalakrishnanCHPhD student at Swiss AI Lab (IDSIA)
- Arun GopalakrishnanINresearcher
- Manoj GopalakrishnanINresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gopalakrishnan mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Tamil கோபாலகிருஷ்ண (kōpālakiruṣṇa). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Gopalakrishnan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊpɑɫækɹɪʃnən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Gopalakrishnan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Gopalakrishnan in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gopalakrishnan.
- How common is the name Gopalakrishnan?
- In India, the national register counted 987 people named Gopalakrishnan, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Gopalakrishnan compared with other names?
- In Angola, Gopalakrishnan is the 774th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gopalakrishnanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gopalakrishnan” — the 774th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.