Lakshman
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘having auspicious marks’, name of the half-brother and faithful companion of Rama in the Ramayana, regarded as a partial incarnation of Vishnu
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləcʃmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lakshman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In Sri Lanka it is the 8th most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 542as Lakshan(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 23K
- NPNepal≈1 in 539as Laxman
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 Lakshman 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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #653 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 named Laxman, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Laxman in NP Nepal, BD Bangladesh and Lakshan in LK Sri Lanka.
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)
Sanskrit: ‘having auspicious marks’, name of the half-brother and faithful companion of Rama in the Ramayana, regarded as a partial incarnation of Vishnu.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lakshman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 539 | — | Laxman | 62 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #8 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 542 | — | Lakshan | 65 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Laxman | 17 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Lakshman | 8 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Lakshman | 9 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Lakshman | 5 |
| BH Bahrain | #957 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Lakshman | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 33 | 1 in 23K | 33 | Lakshman | 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: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Lakshman Jayakodyb. 1930LKSri Lankan politician
- Lakshman Kadirgamarb. 1932LKSri Lankan politician (1932-2005)
- Lakshman Algamab. 1940LKSri Lankan Army officer and United National Party activist (1940-1999)
- Lakshman Chandra Sethb. 1946INIndian politician
- Lakshman Kiriellab. 1948LKSri Lankan politician
- Lakshman Singhb. 1955INIndian politician
- Lakshman Yapa Abeywardenab. 1955LKSri Lankan politician
- Lakshman Senewiratneb. 1957LKSri Lankan politician
- Lakshman Wasantha Pererab. 1963LKSri Lankan politician
- Lakshman Nipuna ArachchiLKSri Lankan politician
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 33 | #561 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Lakshman mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘having auspicious marks’, name of the half-brother and faithful companion of Rama in the Ramayana, regarded as a partial incarnation of Vishnu. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Lakshman?
- A machine transcription gives /ləcʃmən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Lakshman a male or female name?
- Lakshman 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.
- What are other forms of the name Lakshman?
- In the etymology graph, Laxman and Lakshmana are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lakshman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Laxman in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lakshman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lakshman is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Nepal holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lakshman?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 33 people named Lakshman in 2025, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Lakshman compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Lakshman is the 8th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lakshman?
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/lakshmanThe 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, “Lakshman” — the 8th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.