Koushik
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from Bengali
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kou.ʃik/(recorded in a dictionary) Bangla · from Wiktionary · read from কৌশিক
Koushik is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 54Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 70Kas Kaushik
- NONorway1 in 78Kas Kaushik
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Koushik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
18,891 named Kaushik
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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kaushik in IN India, US United States, SG Singapore and 2 more.
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)A male given name from Bengali.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Koushik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #565 | 18,891as Kaushik | 1 in 70K | 19K | Kaushik | 234 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 54K | listed | Koushik | 46 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Kaushik | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Kaushik | 11 |
| US United States | — | 795as Kaushik | 1 in 418K | 1.7K | Kaushik | 265 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Koushik | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 70as Kaushik | 1 in 78K | 70 | — | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Kaushik | 31 |
18,891 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Koushik Mandalresearcher in particle physics
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)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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.2K | #2,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 352 | #26,339 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #18,979 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #26,339 |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
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 Koushik mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from Bengali. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Koushik?
- In Bangla /kou.ʃik/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Koushik a male or female name?
- Koushik is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Koushik have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Kaushik, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Koushik?
- In India, the national register counted 18,891 people named Kaushik, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Koushik compared with other names?
- In India, Koushik is the 565th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Koushik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koushikThe 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, “Koushik” — the 565th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.