Kushan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʊʃɑːn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kushan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 262K
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)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 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.
Sources 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kushan 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 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Kushan | 34 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | Kushan | 75 |
| AU Australia | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 262K | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Kushan | 22 |
| CA Canada | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 1 | Kushan | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Kushan 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 cdo, monastery, (éung-cidng sé). week stirred and scattered. Gee ike X to beat a drum and make a
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In English, An ancient Indo-Scythian or Tocharian kingdom in Central Asia and Northern India.
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.
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #76,958 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #81,605 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kushan?
- A machine transcription gives /kʊʃɑːn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kushan a male or female name?
- Kushan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kushan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Kushan in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kushan.
- How common is the name Kushan?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 10 people named Kushan, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kushan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kushanThe 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, “Kushan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.