Prasanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: clear; bright; pure; distinct; true; placid; tranquil; soothed; pleased
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Prasanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 208K
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 732
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
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 732 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 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(measured from records)
clear; bright; pure; distinct; true; placid; tranquil; soothed; pleased
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Prasanna 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 | #590 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 732 | — | Prasanna | 41 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Prasanna | 20 |
| US United States | — | 1,603 | 1 in 208K | 1.1K | Prasanna | 258 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Prasanna | 31 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Prasanna | 102 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Prasanna | 39 |
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. 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)
Prasanna 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.
Krsna (N); Natega (N); Nrsimha (N);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
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)
- Rajendra Prasannab. 1956INIndian musician
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 27 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #8,883 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 543 | #8,883 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Prasanna mean, and where does it come from?
- clear; bright; pure; distinct; true; placid; tranquil; soothed; pleased Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Prasanna a male or female name?
- Prasanna 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 Prasanna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Prasanna in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prasanna.
- How common is the name Prasanna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,603 people named Prasanna in 2020, about 1 in 208 thousand residents.
- How common is Prasanna compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Prasanna is the 590th 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/prasannaThe 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, “Prasanna” — the 590th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.