Sandha
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sandha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A monk who visited the Buddha at Ñātikā in the GiñlaKā¬ vasatha, when the Buddha preached to him the Sandha Sutta (q.v.).1 v.l. Saddha (see GS. v. 204, n. 2; and 216, n. 2).
- USUnited States1 in 94Kas Sandhya(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 2.7Kas Sandhya
- BHBahrain≈1 in 12Kas Sandhya
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sandha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named Sandhya, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Sandhya
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sandhya in IN India, US United States, ID Indonesia and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A monk who visited the Buddha at Ñātikā in the GiñlaKā¬ vasatha, when the Buddha preached to him the Sandha Sutta (q.v.).1 v.l. Saddha (see GS. v. 204, n. 2; and 216, n. 2). I t is, perhaps, the same monk who is mentioned3 as Saddho (v.l. Sandho) Kaccāyano. He asks the Buddha a question on dhātu, and the Buddha explains it to him. In neither ease does the Commentary say anything about Saddho (or Sandho). The translator of the Saṃyutta regards saddho as an epithet. S. ii. 153 (Ginjakāvastha Sutta).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sandha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Sandhya | 46 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Sandha | 15 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Sandhya | 38 |
| US United States | — | 3,538as Sandhya | 1 in 94K | 3.5K | Sandhya | 272 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Sandhya | 17 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Sandhya | 56 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Sandhya | 8 |
| BH Bahrain | #544 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sandhya | 8 |
| IN India | #205 | — | — | 3.2K | Sandhya | 230 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
- Sandha Rolfb. 1974CHbadminton player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 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
- What does the name Sandha mean?
- Recorded meaning: A monk who visited the Buddha at Ñātikā in the GiñlaKā¬ vasatha, when the Buddha preached to him the Sandha Sutta (q.v.).1 v.l. Saddha (see GS. v. 204, n. 2; and 216, n. 2).
- Is Sandha a male or female name?
- Sandha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sandha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Sandhya in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sandha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,538 people named Sandhya in 2020, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
- How common is Sandha compared with other names?
- In India, Sandha is the 205th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sandhaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sandha” — the 205th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.