Madana
loc · Latin script
Meaning: passion; love; intoxicating; exhilarating; delighting; spring; Common Emetic Nut (Randia dumetorum); the Vangueria spinosa tree
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Madana is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 132Kas Madina(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 762as Madan
- SISlovenia1 in 4.7Kas Medina
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 Madana 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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 762 (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 named Madan, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Madan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Madan in IN India, US United States, ID Indonesia and 1 more, Madhan in SE Sweden and Madani in SA Saudi Arabia.
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)
passion; love; intoxicating; exhilarating; delighting; spring; Common Emetic Nut (Randia dumetorum); the Vangueria spinosa tree.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 762 | — | Madan | 66 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 68K | listed | Madan | 56 |
| US United States | — | 2,521as Madina | 1 in 132K | 188K | Madan | 243 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Madani | 98 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,266as Medina | 1 in 8.1K | 1.3K | Madhan | 11 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 443as Medina | 1 in 4.7K | 459 | — | — |
| AL Albania | — | 366as Medina | 1 in 8.4K | 366 | — | 21 |
| MD Moldova | — | 313as Madina | 1 in 11K | 313 | — | 4 |
| IN India | #216 | — | — | 9.8K | Madan | 219 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the id-github-names register; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); e-services.md — living population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Madana is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Balarama (N); Natega (N); Rama (N); Siva
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In pi, intoxication
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Bulgārijā ("Madan"), Smoļanas apgabalā, 6600 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 1
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 Madana mean, and where does it come from?
- passion; love; intoxicating; exhilarating; delighting; spring; Common Emetic Nut (Randia dumetorum); the Vangueria spinosa tree. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- In which country does Madana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Madan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Madana?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,521 people named Madina in 2020, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
- How common is Madana compared with other names?
- In India, Madana is the 216th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madanaThe 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, “Madana” — the 216th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.