Bandula
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bændʊlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bandula is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 167K(inferred from the name graph)
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 18K
- HRCroatia1 in 101K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
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)
Bandula 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.
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Bandula 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 Latvian, pilsēta Mozambikā, Manika provinces rietumu daļā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 457 | #7,597 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 168 | #20,056 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 42 | #14,899 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 39 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #31,618 |
Reference works 1
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
- How do you pronounce Bandula?
- A machine transcription gives /bændʊlə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bandula have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Bandula in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bandula.
- How common is the name Bandula?
- In India, the national register counted 168 people named Bandula, about 1 in 7.9 million residents.
- How common is Bandula compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Bandula is the 179th most common surname of 20,196 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bandula?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bandulaThe 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, “Bandula” — the 179th most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.