Names of India IN

The names that most distinguish India from the rest of the world are Kumar, Singh and Prasad; names here are written in both Latin and Devanagari.

Written in Hindi, English, Assamese, Bangla and 11 more.

Population
1.3B
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
614K
BBuilt from 2 official registers, 1 sub-national, 613,692 name forms in our corpus, 35 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in India

6 naming traditions are in use in India, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in India

Characteristic of India

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when India holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

PradeshशहरNadiaAnandLateSanjayRajuRajManojSantoshAjayAnilRajeshSunilDeepakSurajSunitaRameshTarnAshokSureshPawanDineshJitendraSandeepVijayVikashRakeshMukeshKrishna
Sized by how much of the difference between India's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Over time

RamaMohammedRajeshSanjaySunil1889201774,885
naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), 1887–2017 (131 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Names in India are written in Latin (83%) and Devanagari (17%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Pradeshgiven name(measured from records)
Kumarsurname(measured from records)
Devisurname(measured from records)
Singhsurname(measured from records)
गांवsurname(measured from records)
The best-attested names in India, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Sub-national registers

1 register for India publishes regional lists only (India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)). A regional list is not a national one, and summing regions would be an aggregate the publisher never made, so no figure on this page comes from them.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

Is there one naming system in India?
No — 6 are described on this page (Hindi and North Indian, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil and South Indian, Punjabi and Sikh), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of India”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/IN (data snapshot 2026-10-09).