Nagendra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘mighty serpent’ or ‘mighty elephant’ (literally ‘a (veritable) Indra among serpents/elephants’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nagendra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 796K(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 1.6K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 7.8K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nagender in SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates.
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: ‘mighty serpent’ or ‘mighty elephant’ (literally ‘a (veritable) Indra among serpents/elephants’).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nagendra 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 | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Nagendra | 38 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Nagendra | 9 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Nagendra | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Nagender | 5 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Nagender | 4 |
| US United States | — | 418 | 1 in 796K | 410 | Nagendra | 188 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Nagendra | 1 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Nagender | 3 |
| IN India | #470 | — | — | 160 | Nagendra | 209 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Nagendra is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Himalaya (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In German, männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sanskrit. nägendra »große Schlange«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
lord of serpents.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
mountain lord.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nagendra Singhb. 1914INIndian judge (1914–1988)
- Hema Nagendra Babu Thandarangb. 1996INbadminton player
- Nagendra BakuITchemist
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.
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 Nagendra mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘mighty serpent’ or ‘mighty elephant’ (literally ‘a (veritable) Indra among serpents/elephants’). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Nagendra a male or female name?
- Nagendra 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 Nagendra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Nagendra in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nagendra.
- How common is the name Nagendra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 418 people named Nagendra in 2020, about 1 in 796 thousand residents.
- How common is Nagendra compared with other names?
- In India, Nagendra is the 470th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names 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/nagendraThe 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, “Nagendra” — the 470th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.