Sulav
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: naampy, 1997
/sʉlɑʋ/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Sulav is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 489K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 870Kfew records
- FIFinland≈1 in 1.8M
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 Sulav itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 named Sulabh, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sulabh in IN India, US United States, NZ New Zealand and 1 more and Sulov in BD Bangladesh.
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)Sulav 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 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 4 | Sulabh | 102 |
| NP Nepal | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Sulav | 40 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 829K | — | Sulov | 9 |
| US United States | 160as Siliva | 1 in 2.1M | 1.6K | Sulabh | 102 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Sulabh | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 13as Sliva | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 491K | — | Sulabh | 6 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Sulav Lohanib. 2001NPbadminton 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).
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Sulav?
- In Norwegian /sʉlɑʋ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sulav a male or female name?
- Sulav 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 Sulav have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Sulabh in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sulav?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 12 people named Sulav, about 1 in 489 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sulav?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sulavThe 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, “Sulav”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.