Purna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Purna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 332K
- NPNepal≈1 in 670
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 670 (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Puran in ID Indonesia.
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Purna 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 | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 670 | 1 | Purna | 71 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 71K | listed | Puran | 11 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Purna | 24 |
| US United States | — | 1,003 | 1 in 332K | 635 | Purna | 171 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Purna | 15 |
| QA Qatar | #382 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Purna | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Purna | 16 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Purna | 6 |
| BH Bahrain | #690 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Purna | 4 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the id-github-names 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)
Purna 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.
In Latvian, upe Kolas pussalā, Krievijas Murmanskas apgabalā, Ponojas labā krasta pieteka
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Purva purene ("Caltha palustris")
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Mazpurenīte
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Purna Chitrakarb. 1974NPNepali badminton player
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 635 | #12,409 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 368 | #12,409 |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #261 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Purna a male or female name?
- Purna 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 Purna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Purna in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled purna.
- How common is the name Purna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,003 people named Purna in 2020, about 1 in 332 thousand residents.
- How common is Purna compared with other names?
- In Qatar, Purna is the 382nd most common given name of 12,797 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/purnaThe 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, “Purna” — the 382nd most common given name in Qatar. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.