Sekhara
given name · Latin script
Meaning: an author (K)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɛkɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sekhara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 684Kas Shekhar(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 5.5Kas Shekhar
- KWKuwait≈1 in 13Kas Sekhar
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 Sekhara 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 named Shekhar, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Shekhar
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shekhar in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 2 more, Sekhar in KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates, AO Angola and 1 more and Shekar in QA Qatar.
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)
an author (K)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sekhara 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 | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Shekhar | 47 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Shekhar | 34 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Shekhar | 26 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Sekhar | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Sekhar | 39 |
| US United States | — | 486as Shekhar | 1 in 684K | 543 | Shekhar | 217 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sekhar | 10 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Sekhar | 13 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Shekar | 7 |
| IN India | #473 | — | — | 3.6K | Shekhar | 225 |
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. 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)
Sekhara 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.
In pi, garland for the crest．
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 2.9K | #1,547 |
| IN India | Sunama Sarit — Sanskrit Names (2020) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sekhara mean, and where does it come from?
- an author (K) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Sekhara?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛkɑɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sekhara a male or female name?
- Sekhara 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 Sekhara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Shekhar in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sekhara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 486 people named Shekhar in 2020, about 1 in 684 thousand residents.
- How common is Sekhara compared with other names?
- In India, Sekhara is the 473rd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sekhara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sekharaThe 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, “Sekhara” — the 473rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.