Ishara
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ishara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Kiswahili: a signal, a sign.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 424(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 99K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 137K
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
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 424 (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kiswahili: a signal, a sign
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ishara 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 | #28 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 424 | — | Ishara | 66 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Ishara | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Ishara | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Ishara | 62 |
| US United States | — | 179 | 1 in 1.9M | 156 | Ishara | 97 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 114 | 1 in 152K | 114 | Ishara | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 55 | 1 in 186K | 55 | — | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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)
Ishara 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 Hausa, sign, signal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 156 | #41,133 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 114 | #5,129 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 67 | #10,049 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 55 | #12,772 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23 | #41,133 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 7 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ishara mean, and where does it come from?
- Kiswahili: a signal, a sign Recorded by African Names.
- Is Ishara a male or female name?
- Ishara 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 Ishara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Ishara in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ishara.
- How common is the name Ishara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 179 people named Ishara in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Ishara compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Ishara is the 28th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ishara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isharaThe 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, “Ishara” — the 28th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.