Aruna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Son of Kashyapa by Vinata, charioteer of Surya
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑɹunə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aruna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 2Kas Аруна
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 751
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 Aruna 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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 751 (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Аруна in KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
Son of Kashyapa by Vinata, charioteer of Surya.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Aruna, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aruna 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 | #916 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 751 | — | Aruna | 37 |
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Aruna | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Aruna | 38 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #541 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 12K | Аруна | 34 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Aruna | 59 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,142 | 1 in 51K | 4.1K | — | — |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Aruna | 26 |
| GY Guyana | — | 85 | 1 in 8.8K | 85 | Aruna | 2 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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)
Aruna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Bhuvanegvari (N); Kali (N); Lalita (N); a
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Indra (५); name of many men (P); Natega
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In English, Sense; the dawn
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
name of a god; radiance
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)
- Aruna Asaf Alib. 1909INIndian independence activist (1909-1996)
- Aruna Vasudevb. 1936INIndian writer (1936–2024)
- Aruna Lamab. 1945INIndian singer (1945–1998)
- Aruna Iranib. 1952INIndian actress (b. 1946)
- Aruna Ramchandra Dhereb. 1957INIndian writer
- Aruna Millerb. 1964INAmerican politician and civil engineer (born 1964)
- Aruna Shieldsb. 1978GBBritish actress
- Aruna Dindaneb. 1980CIIvorian association football player
- Aruna SundararajanINIndian IAS officer
- Aruna BiswasBDBangladeshi film actress
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 64 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.1K | #3,125 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.6K | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 85 | #509 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 63 | #3,125 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Aruna mean, and where does it come from?
- Son of Kashyapa by Vinata, charioteer of Surya. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Aruna?
- In the etymology graph, Arun is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Aruna?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑɹunə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Aruna a male or female name?
- Aruna is a female 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 Aruna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Aruna in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aruna.
- How common is the name Aruna?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,142 people named Aruna in 2022, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Aruna compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Aruna is the 916th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aruna?
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/arunaThe 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, “Aruna” — the 916th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.