Varma
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈvɑɹmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Varma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *varma (“strong, sturdy”) (compare Estonian varmas, Ingrian varma, Karelian varma, Veps varmed, Votic varmõ).
- INIndia1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 12Kas Verma
- USUnited States1 in 60Kas Verma
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 Varma 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #258 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 363 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
423,976 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Verma in IN India, US United States, ID Indonesia and 1 more.
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)
From Proto-Finnic *varma (“strong, sturdy”) (compare Estonian varmas, Ingrian varma, Karelian varma, Veps varmed, Votic varmõ).
Sources 2
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Varma 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 | #43 | 423,976 | 1 in 3.1K | 424K | Verma | 319 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Verma | 35 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Verma | 32 |
| US United States | — | 5,506as Verma | 1 in 60K | 9.2K | Verma | 363 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #363 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Varma | 55 |
| QA Qatar | #825 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Varma | 14 |
| BH Bahrain | #554 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Varma | 14 |
423,976 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling varma. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
Varma is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, warm, hot (temperature)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to warm, heat, warm up
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, strong, sturdy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, sure, certain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, bulky
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, warm
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pazhassi Rajab. 1753INnot in their usual namePrince Regent of Kottayam (1753-1805)
- Ravi Varmab. 1848INIndian painter from Kerala (1848–1906)
- A. R. Raja Raja Varmab. 1863INIndian poet (1863–1918)
- Mahadevi Varmab. 1907INIndian Hindi writer and poet (1907-1987)
- Arvind Varmab. 1947INAmerican chemical engineer
- Ajay Varmab. 1963INIndian (Bengal) cricketer
- Indira Varmab. 1973GBEnglish actress
- Samyuktha Varmab. 1982INIndian actress
- Sourabh Varmab. 1992INbadminton player
- Shikha VarmaINIndian experimental condensed-matter physicist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 424K | #56 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.4K | #1,534 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #21,069 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Varma mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Finnic *varma (“strong, sturdy”) (compare Estonian varmas, Ingrian varma, Karelian varma, Veps varmed, Votic varmõ). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Varma?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɑɹmə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Varma have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 424 thousand people named Varma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled verma.
- Where is Varma most common?
- Varma is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Varma?
- In India, the national register counted 423,976 people named Varma, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Varma compared with other names?
- In India, Varma is the 43rd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Varma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/varmaThe 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, “Varma” — the 43rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.