Santosh
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Santosh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 5th most common given name.
- NPNepal≈1 in 223(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.5K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 2.5K
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 Santosh 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)
- #248 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 223 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Santhosh in KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates and Santos in ES Spain.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Santosh 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 | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 223 | 2 | Santosh | 95 |
| US United States | — | 40,112as Santos | 1 in 8.3K | 144K | Santosh | 308 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Santosh | 28 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 16,817as Santos | 1 in 1K | 27K | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 9,632as Santos | 1 in 5.2K | 85K | Santos | 29 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #246 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Santhosh | 73 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2,267as Santos | 1 in 2.2K | 2.3K | — | — |
| KW Kuwait | #297 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Santhosh | 30 |
| IN India | #5 | — | — | 4K | Santosh | 294 |
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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Santosh Kumar Ghoshb. 1920INIndian Bengali writer
- Santosh Duttab. 1925INIndian Bengali actor, lawyer (1925-1988)
- Santosh Gangwarb. 1948INGovernor of Jharkhand
- Santosh Sivanb. 1964INIndian cinematographer
- Santosh Yadavb. 1967INIndian mountain climber
- Santosh Ramb. 1979INIndian filmmaker
- Santosh Juvekarb. 1984INIndian actor
- Santosh Sahukhalab. 1988NPNepalese association football player (1988-)
- Tamannaah Bhatiab. 1989INnot in their usual nameIndian actress (born 1989)
- Santosh ThundiyilINIndian cinematographer
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 40 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Santosh a male or female name?
- Santosh 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 Santosh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 136 thousand people named Santosh in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santosh.
- How common is the name Santosh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 40,112 people named Santos in 2020, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Santosh compared with other names?
- In India, Santosh is the 5th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Santosh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/santoshThe 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, “Santosh” — the 5th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.