Biswas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu name based on Sanskrit visvdsa ‘trust’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/biʃːaʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) Bangla · from Wiktionary · read from বিশ্বাস
Biswas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 350(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 10Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 23K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #286 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 353 (inferred from the name graph)
≈460,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, 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
(measured from records)Hindu name based on Sanskrit visvdsa ‘trust’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Biswas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #20 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 353 | — | Biswas | 120 |
| IN India | #48 | 16,086 | 1 in 82K | 16K | Biswas | 239 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Biswas | 16 |
| US United States | — | 1,902 | 1 in 175K | 3.2K | Biswas | 250 |
| MY Malaysia | #881 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Biswas | 19 |
| SG Singapore | #694 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Biswas | 31 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Biswas | 2 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Basanta Kumar Biswasb. 1895INIndian revolutionary
- Debabrata Biswasb. 1911INIndian singer
- Asit Biswasb. 1939CACanadian hydrologist
- Debabrata Biswasb. 1945INIndian politician
- Sutapa Biswasb. 1962INBritish-Indian conceptual artist (born 1962)
- Seema Biswasb. 1965INIndian actress
- Antara Biswasb. 1982INIndian actress
- Ashim Kumar BiswasINIndian scientist
- Pinaki BiswasINwikipedian and author
- Aruna BiswasBDBangladeshi film actress
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Biswas?
- In Bangla /biʃːaʃ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Biswas mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hindu name based on Sanskrit visvdsa ‘trust’.
- In which country does Biswas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 460 thousand people named Biswas in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled biswas.
- How common is the name Biswas?
- In India, the national register counted 16,086 people named Biswas, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Biswas compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Biswas is the 20th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/biswasThe 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, “Biswas” — the 20th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.