Nakun
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: naampy, 1997
Nakun is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Nakun is also written นุกูล in Thai, Накул in Cyrillic and নকুল in Bengali.
- THThailand≈1 in 5.2Kas นุกูล(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 12Kas Nakul
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 120Kfew recordsas Nakul
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 Nakun itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 named Nakul, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as นุกูล
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nakun in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Cyrillic and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Nakul in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 2 more and นุกูล in TH Thailand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nakun 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 | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 177 | Nakul | 183 |
| TH Thailand | #486 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | register #183,279 | นุกูล | 90 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Nakul | 23 |
| US United States | — | 514as Nakul | 1 in 647K | 514 | Nakul | 180 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 674K | — | Nakul | 25 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Nakul | 10 |
| GY Guyana | — | 5as Nakul | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | — |
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; 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)Nakun 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 Finnish, genitive singular of naku
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nay, seeing, looking at.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Nakun a male or female name?
- Nakun 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Nakun?
- Mondonomo estimates about 124 thousand people named Nakul in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Thailand, Bangladesh, United States and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nakun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 514 people named Nakul in 2020, about 1 in 647 thousand residents.
- How common is Nakun compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Nakun is the 486th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nakun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nakunThe 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, “Nakun” — ranked 19283rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.