Nanaka

given name · Latin script

Meaning: without darkness. grief-less; fearless; happy; a coin; anything stamped with an impression

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nanaka is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

without darkness. grief-less; fearless; happy; a coin; anything stamped with an impression.

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nanaka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Nanaka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—2Nanaka7
PL Poland—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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nanaka is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nānaka

  • English given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, India, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Nānaka

  • Hindi given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Japan, South Africa, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Japanese, Bangla

    Also written Nanaki

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Нанака

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nanaka 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.

  • coin; anything with an impression

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • In Aymara, we (exclusive)

    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)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Nanaka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196564—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199460—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196758—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196058—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)195758—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197056—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196452—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196249—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)195247—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199546—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197246—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196946—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nanaka mean, and where does it come from?
without darkness. grief-less; fearless; happy; a coin; anything stamped with an impression. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
Is Nanaka a male or female name?
Nanaka 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 Nanaka have the most bearers?
Nanaka is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled nanaka.

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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, “Nanaka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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