Chanaka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chanaka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 629(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 26K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 74K
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
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 629 (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 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
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)
Chanaka 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 | #69 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 629 | — | Chanaka | 76 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Chanaka | 17 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Chanaka | 17 |
| US United States | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Chanaka | 81 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 699K | — | Chanaka | 7 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Chanaka | 7 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Chanaka | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 8 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chanaka Amaratungab. 1958LKSri Lankan politician
- Chanaka Welegedarab. 1981LKSri Lankan cricketer
- Hasitha Chanakab. 1984LKbadminton player
- Chanaka Nadeeshan Kahathuduwab. 2000LKresearcher
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #11,709 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 8 | #12,133 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Is Chanaka a male or female name?
- Chanaka 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 Chanaka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Chanaka in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chanaka.
- How common is the name Chanaka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8 people named Chanaka in 2026, about 1 in 4.8 million residents.
- How common is Chanaka compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Chanaka is the 69th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chanakaThe 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, “Chanaka” — the 69th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.