Sholay
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sholay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 188Kas Shola(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351Kas Shola
- SESweden1 in 680Kas Shola
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 Sholay 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
336 named Shola, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana, as Shola
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shola in US United States and ষোল in BD Bangladesh.
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
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)
Sholay 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 336as Shola | 1 in 990K | 182 | Shola | 13 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | ষোল | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 15as Shola | 1 in 680K | 15 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 9as Shola | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 4as Shola | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1as Shola | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
336 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sholay a male or female name?
- Sholay is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sholay have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 336 people named Shola, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sholay most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sholay itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 188 thousand people named Shola.
- How common is the name Sholay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 336 people named Shola in 2020, about 1 in 990 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sholay?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sholayThe 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, “Sholay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.