Vishan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vishan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 19K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 205K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, 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)
Vishan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Vishan | 12 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 602K | — | Vishan | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Vishan | 10 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 327K | — | Vishan | 11 |
| US United States | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | 7 | Vishan | 74 |
| GY Guyana | 39 | 1 in 19K | 39 | Vishan | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Vishan | 1 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Vishan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "cheery."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 39 | #555 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Vishan a male or female name?
- Vishan is a male 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 Vishan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Vishan in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vishan.
- How common is the name Vishan?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 39 people named Vishan in 2025, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vishanThe 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, “Vishan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.