Anura
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Anura is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common given name. Recorded meaning: General of the Vaṅga king’s army, maternal cousin of Sīhabāhu and later husband of Sīhabāhu’s mother (Mhv.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 15K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 37K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
General of the Vaṅga king’s army, maternal cousin of Sīhabāhu and later husband of Sīhabāhu’s mother (Mhv. vi.10-20; MT.246).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anura 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 | #99 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Anura | 65 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 233K | 1 | Anura | 10 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Anura | 12 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Anura | 7 |
| US United States | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 10 | Anura | 90 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Anura | 14 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Anura | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 27 | 1 in 378K | 27 | — | 2 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Anura | 3 |
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); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Anura 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.
In pi, A general of the Vaṅga king's army, maternal cousin of Sīhabāhu, father of Vijaya. When Sīhabāhn left the lion's den with his mother and sister they came across Anura who was ruling the border country. Later Anura married Sīhabāhu's mother.’ M v . v i . 1020; MT.246.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In Latvian, Bezastainie abinieki - hordaiņu tipa mugurkaulnieku apakštipa abinieku klases kārta
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Anura Prabhudesaib. 1998INbadminton player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 27 | #20,243 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #6,972 |
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
- Where does the name Anura come from?
- General of the Vaṅga king’s army, maternal cousin of Sīhabāhu and later husband of Sīhabāhu’s mother (Mhv. vi.10-20; MT.246). Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
- What does the name Anura mean?
- Recorded meaning: General of the Vaṅga king’s army, maternal cousin of Sīhabāhu and later husband of Sīhabāhu’s mother (Mhv.
- Is Anura a male or female name?
- Anura 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 Anura have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Anura in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anura.
- How common is the name Anura?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 27 people named Anura, about 1 in 378 thousand residents.
- How common is Anura compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Anura is the 99th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anuraThe same 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), 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, “Anura” — the 99th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.