Verma
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈvɛɹmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Verma 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: Borrowed from Hindi वर्मा (varmā). Variant of Varma.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 60K
- INIndia1 in 3.1Kas Varma
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 Verma 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 named Varma
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Varma in AE United Arab Emirates, QA Qatar, BH Bahrain.
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)
Borrowed from Hindi वर्मा (varmā). Variant of Varma.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Verma 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 | 423,976as Varma | 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 | — | 5,506 | 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)
Verma is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Faroese, to warm, to warm up
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to warm, to heat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, to 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)
- Deven Vermab. 1937INIndian actor
- Inder M Vermab. 1947INAmerican–Indian academic; PNAS editor-in-chief
- Richard Vermab. 1969USAmerican diplomat
- Kimi Vermab. 1977USAmerican actress
- Anupama Vermab. 1981INIndian model
- Harish Vermab. 1982INIndian actor
- Arun Vermab. 1986INIndian politician
- Abhishek Vermab. 1989INIndian archer
- Sameer Vermab. 1994INIndian badminton player
- Siril Vermab. 1999INbadminton 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 51K | #307 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 38K | #33 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.2K | #3,764 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.5K | #6,211 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,266 |
| 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 Verma mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hindi वर्मा (varmā). Variant of Varma. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Verma?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɛɹmə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Verma have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 424 thousand people named Varma, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Verma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,506 people named Verma in 2010, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Verma compared with other names?
- In India, Verma is the 43rd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vermaThe 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, “Verma” — the 43rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.