Anupa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑnupə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anupa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 9.1K
- NPNepal≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Anupa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #862 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Anupa | 26 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Anupa | 18 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 376K | — | Anupa | 9 |
| US United States | — | 266 | 1 in 1.3M | 264 | Anupa | 126 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Anupa | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 28 | 1 in 27K | 28 | Anupa | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Anupa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, contraction of ano pa (“what else”)
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.
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 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 264 | #31,941 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 28 | #566 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #31,941 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Anupa?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑnupə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Anupa a male or female name?
- Anupa 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 Anupa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Anupa in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anupa.
- How common is the name Anupa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 266 people named Anupa in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Anupa compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Anupa is the 862nd most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Anupa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anupaThe 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, “Anupa” — the 862nd most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.