Dissanayaka
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dissanayaka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 437(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 381K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 430K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 437 (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 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)
Dissanayaka 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 | #25 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 437 | Dissanayaka | 76 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 690K | Dissanayaka | 7 |
| US United States | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | Dissanayaka | 55 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | Dissanayaka | 27 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 381K | Dissanayaka | 4 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 545K | Dissanayaka | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 430K | Dissanayaka | 11 |
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.
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)
- Ellen Dissanayakeb. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican anthropologist
- Anura Kurankan Dissanayakeb. 1968LKnot in their usual namePresident of Sri Lanka since 2024
- Kaushalya Dissanayakeb. 1968LKnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Navin Dissanayakeb. 1969LKnot in their usual nameSri Lankan politician
- Sajith Dissanayakab. 1989LKSri Lankan cricketer
- Awantha DissanayakeGBnot in their usual nameresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Dissanayaka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Dissanayaka in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dissanayaka.
- How common is the name Dissanayaka?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52,000 people in Sri Lanka have Dissanayaka as their first surname, about 1 in 437 residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Dissanayaka compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Dissanayaka is the 25th most common surname of 20,196 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dissanayakaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Dissanayaka” — the 25th most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.