Nakula
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nakula is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: of the colour of an Ichneumon.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
of the colour of an Ichneumon. a son; a musical instrument; the Bengal Mongoose (Viverra ichneumon)
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nakula counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nakula 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.
a Pandava (M); Visnu (N); Siva (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Swahili, first-person singular present affirmative of -la
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, mongoose
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Senindiešu eposā "Mahābhārata" - viens no pāndaviem - pieciem valdnieka Pāndu sievas Kuntī dēliem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 40 | #9,446 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #67,275 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #107,632 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #364,975 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Nakula come from?
- of the colour of an Ichneumon. a son; a musical instrument; the Bengal Mongoose (Viverra ichneumon) Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- What does the name Nakula mean?
- Recorded meaning: of the colour of an Ichneumon.
- Is Nakula a male or female name?
- Nakula 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 Nakula have the most bearers?
- Nakula is most frequently recorded in India.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nakulaThe 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, “Nakula”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.