In the entire world, Shanaka (Shanaka 
) is quite a common principally male, but scarcely feminine given name. The forename Shanaka is habitual in Sri Lanka, where it is quite a common masculine name, Qatar, where it is quite a rare male name, and United Arab Emirates. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in Sri Lanka, India, and Ethiopia. Much less frequently, Shanaka is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Shanaka | Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka |
| shanaka fernando Australian restaurateur (b. 1968) |
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| shanaka de silva researcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-0310-5516 |
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| shanaka r gunawardena researcher |
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| shanaka sampath cricketer, LK (b. 1991) |
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