Tirtha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A site of pilgrimage
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃɝθə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tirtha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- NPNepal≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 16K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 79K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tirtho 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(measured from records)
A site of pilgrimage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tirtha 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 | 2 | Tirtha | 42 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Tirtho | 31 |
| QA Qatar | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Tirtha | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Tirtha | 11 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Tirtha | 12 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Tirtha | 16 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Tirtha | 3 |
| PL Poland | 12 | 1 in 3.2M | 12 | — | — |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tirtha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Kala (N); Siva (N); Visnu (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
ford
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tirtha Man Maskeyb. 1946NPNepalese conservationist
- Tirtha Bahadur Tamangb. 1987NPNepalese ultramarathon runner
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 12 | #9,551 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #9,172 |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #108 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Tirtha mean, and where does it come from?
- A site of pilgrimage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tirtha?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɝθə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Tirtha a male or female name?
- Tirtha 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 Tirtha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Tirtha in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tirtha.
- How common is the name Tirtha?
- In Poland, the national register counted 12 people named Tirtha in 2026, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tirtha?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tirthaThe 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, “Tirtha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.