Ramana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pleasing; delightful; charming
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹamənə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ramana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 32Kas Ramani(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 519Kas Srinidhi
- AOAngola≈1 in 26K
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 Ramana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 named Ramani, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ramani in MY Malaysia, LK Sri Lanka, NG Nigeria and 1 more.
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)
pleasing; delightful; charming. lover; husband.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ramana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #647 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Ramani | 31 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Ramana | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Ramani | 29 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 274K | listed | Ramana | 52 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 220K | — | Ramani | 12 |
| US United States | — | 641as Srinidhi | 1 in 519K | 1.3K | Ramana | 223 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Ramani | 7 |
| GY Guyana | — | 5as Ramani | 1 in 150K | 35 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
Ramana 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.
name of several men (P)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Latvian, Apmierinājums, miers; droša, mierīga vieta
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Raman Prinjab. 1961GBnot in their usual nameBritish astronomer
- Ramana KumarGBPh.D. University of Cambridge 2015
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 35 | #590 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Ramana come from?
- pleasing; delightful; charming. lover; husband. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Ramana?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹamənə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Ramana a male or female name?
- Ramana is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Ramana mean?
- Recorded meaning: pleasing; delightful; charming.
- In which country does Ramana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Ramani in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ramana?
- In the United States, the national register counted 641 people named Srinidhi in 2020, about 1 in 519 thousand residents.
- How common is Ramana compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Ramana is the 647th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ramana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ramanaThe 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, “Ramana” — the 647th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.