Sadasivan

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sɑdəsivən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sadasivan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
  • INIndia1 in 2.6M
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 36K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,400 people, est.

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)

United Arab Emirates, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sadasivan 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.

Where Sadasivan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈3,400 est.≈1 in 415K—Sadasivan2
IN India5111 in 2.6M511Sadasivan52
MY Malaysia≈380 est.≈1 in 86K—Sadasivan12
AE United Arab Emirates≈280 est.≈1 in 36K—Sadasivan1
US United States1471 in 2.3M158Sadasivan105
MA Morocco≈65 est.≈1 in 550K—Sadasivan1
SG Singapore≈36 est.≈1 in 174K—Sadasivan19

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sadasivan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Sada-Sivan, Sadāśivaṉ, Sadāśivan

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1930194019501960Ayiroor Sadasivan, b. 1939C. K. Sadasivan, b. 1953Balaji Sadasivan, b. 1955

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)

FormalDear Sadasivan,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

How do you pronounce Sadasivan?
A machine transcription gives /sɑdəsivən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Sadasivan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Sadasivan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sadasivan.
How common is the name Sadasivan?
In India, the national register counted 511 people named Sadasivan, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.

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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, “Sadasivan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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