Naga
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Naga is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: lang., India, Burma; municipality,.
- INIndia1 in 15K(measured from records)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 11K
- JPJapan≈1 in 26K
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 Naga 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
86,935 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nag in IN India, ID Indonesia, BD Bangladesh and 2 more and Negi in AE United Arab Emirates, KW Kuwait, BH Bahrain.
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)
lang., India, Burma; municipality,
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #237 | 86,935 | 1 in 15K | 87K | Nag | 226 |
| BD Bangladesh | #416 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Nag | 32 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Nag | 27 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Nag | 22 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Naga | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #569 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Negi | 34 |
| NO Norway | — | 398as Nag | 1 in 14K | 398 | Nag | 6 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Negi | 7 |
| BH Bahrain | #911 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Negi | 5 |
86,935 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling naga. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Naga 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.
In English, Philippines
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
not moving. mountain; the number 7.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
serpent; elephant
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Kurdish, alternative form of niha (“now”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mlv, Determinate form of ga (“kava”)
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 38 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Naga mean, and where does it come from?
- lang., India, Burma; municipality, Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Naga a male or female name?
- Naga 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 Naga have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 87 thousand people named Naga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nag.
- How common is the name Naga?
- In India, the national register counted 86,935 people named Naga, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Naga compared with other names?
- In India, Naga is the 237th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames 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/nagaThe 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, “Naga” — the 237th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.