Sunita
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: 1 probably meaning ‘of good conduct’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/suːniːtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sunita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 13th most common given name.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 7.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 66K
- USUnited States1 in 33Kas Santa
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 Sunita 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)
- #318 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 294 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 658 (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 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 Sanita in BR Brazil, LV Latvia.
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)
Sanskrit: 1 probably meaning ‘of good conduct’. 2 ‘giving good guidance, righteous’. Originally a masculine name, now exclusively feminine.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sunita 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 | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 658 | 3 | Sunita | 72 |
| BR Brazil | — | 17,650as Santa | 1 in 12K | 23K | Sanita | 46 |
| US United States | — | 10,149as Santa | 1 in 33K | 9.7K | Sunita | 294 |
| LV Latvia | #616 | 5,721as Santa | 1 in 329 | 5.7K | Sanita | 28 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 66K | listed | Sunita | 68 |
| GY Guyana | #86 | 561 | 1 in 1.3K | 561 | Sunita | 8 |
| QA Qatar | #398 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Sunita | 12 |
| KW Kuwait | #376 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Sunita | 18 |
| IN India | #13 | — | — | 230 | Sunita | 234 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sunita is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from Sanskrit of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning: reliable one, one of good character, one with good morals, good behaviour, a daughter of Dharma or goddess of divine bliss.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
a king (P); Siva (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In English, Sanskrit; of good conduct
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, weibl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (wahr scheinlich zu sanskrit. su- »gut« + sanskrit. nlta »geführt, geleitet«, etwa »von gutem
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
good conduct
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
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)
- Sunita Jainb. 1940INIndian writer (1940-2017)
- Sunita Kohlib. 1946INIndian architect
- Sunita Narainb. 1961INIndian environmentalist
- Sunita Williamsb. 1965USAmerican astronaut and USN officer
- Sunita Danuwarb. 1977NPNepalese activist
- Jyoti Sunita Kullub. 1978INIndian field hockey player
- Sunita Marshallb. 1981PKPakistani fashion model and actress
- Sunita GowarikerINIndian model and actress
- Sunita DulalNPNepalese folk singer
- Sunita ShroffGBBritish actress
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)
Attested in 58 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 18K | #337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.7K | #4,087 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 561 | #153 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 68 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #4,087 |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 3 | #62 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 2 | #22,046 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2016 | 1 | — |
| IN India | A Genealogist's Guide to Indian Names (Ellefson, 2002) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Sunama Sarit — Sanskrit Names (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Sunita come from?
- Sanskrit: 1 probably meaning ‘of good conduct’. 2 ‘giving good guidance, righteous’. Originally a masculine name, now exclusively feminine. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Sunita?
- A machine transcription gives /suːniːtə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Sunita mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: 1 probably meaning ‘of good conduct’.
- Is Sunita a male or female name?
- Sunita 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 Sunita have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Sunita in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sunita.
- How common is the name Sunita?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 561 people named Sunita in 2025, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Sunita compared with other names?
- In India, Sunita is the 13th most common given name of 3,760,348 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/sunitaThe 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, “Sunita” — the 13th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.