Apana
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Lalita (N)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/æpænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Apana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 250K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- INIndia1 in 221M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)
295 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Lalita (N)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Apana 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 295 | 1 in 1.1M | 345 | Apana | 23 |
| IN India | 6 | 1 in 221M | 6 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Apana | 23 |
| BO Bolivia | — | — | — | Apana | 15 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Apana | 1 |
295 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Apana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, definite accusative plural of api
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In guc, leaf
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)
- Chang Apanab. 1871USChinese American police officer
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 345 | #62,640 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 305 | #61,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 295 | #66,931 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #69,645 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #170,296 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #15,933 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #622 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Apana mean, and where does it come from?
- Lalita (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Apana?
- A machine transcription gives /æpænə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Apana have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 295 people named Apana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled apana.
- Where is Apana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Apana is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 250 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Apana?
- In the United States, the national register counted 295 people named Apana in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/apanaThe 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, “Apana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.