Premadasa

surname · Latin script

Premadasa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka≈1 in 8.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.2M
  • USUnited States≈1 in 41M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,700 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
29 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Sri Lanka, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
PremadasaLatin(measured from records)
ප්‍රේමදාසSinhala(measured from records)

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.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Premadasa 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.

Where Premadasa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka#126≈2,700 est.≈1 in 8.4K—Premadasa29
GB United Kingdom—≈13 est.≈1 in 5.2M34Premadasa17
US United States—≈8 est.≈1 in 41M—Premadasa20

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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)

Premadasa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sri Lanka

    Also written Premadāsa

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Prēmadāsa, Premadāsa

17 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1920194019601980Ranasinghe Premadasa, b. 1924Hema Premadasa, b. 1935Sajith Premadasa, b. 1967

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)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Premadasa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200234#64,689

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

In which country does Premadasa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Premadasa in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled premadasa.
How common is the name Premadasa?
Mondonomo estimates about 2,700 people in Sri Lanka have Premadasa as their first surname, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
How common is Premadasa compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Premadasa is the 126th most common surname of 20,196 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Premadasa” — the 126th most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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