Weerasooriya

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Weerasooriya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden≈1 in 714K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

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)

Weerasooriya 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.

Where Weerasooriya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka#228≈11,000 est.≈1 in 2K—Weerasooriya54
US United States—≈65 est.≈1 in 5.1MlistedWeerasooriya74
IT Italy—≈37 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Weerasooriya4
CA Canada—≈31 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Weerasooriya25
SE Sweden—≈14 est.≈1 in 714K—Weerasooriya10
NZ New Zealand—≈4 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Weerasooriya3

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Weerasooriya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

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

In which country does Weerasooriya have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Weerasooriya in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weerasooriya.
How common is the name Weerasooriya?
Mondonomo estimates about 11,000 people in Sri Lanka have Weerasooriya as their first surname, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
How common is Weerasooriya compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Weerasooriya is the 228th most common surname of 20,196 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Weerasooriya” — the 228th most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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