Ranaweera
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹənəwɛɛɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ranaweera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common surname.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 780(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 111K
- NONorway1 in 210K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 780 (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ranaweera 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 | #74 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 780 | — | Ranaweera | 75 |
| US United States | — | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 175 | Ranaweera | 104 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 403K | — | Ranaweera | 10 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Ranaweera | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 71 | Ranaweera | 42 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Ranaweera | 14 |
| NO Norway | — | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | Ranaweera | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 2 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eva Ranaweerab. 1924LKSri Lankan writer
- Vajira Ranaweerab. 1968LKSri Lankan cricketer (1968-2020)
- Seth Ranaweerab. 1974LKactor
- Sanjaya Ranaweerab. 1986LKSri Lankan cricketer (1986-)
- Tenuka Ranaweerab. 2005Sri Lankan footballer (born 2005)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 175 | #108,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 71 | #41,011 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #37,842 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Ranaweera?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹənəwɛɛɹə/ (IPA) for Sinhala.
- In which country does Ranaweera have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Ranaweera in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ranaweera.
- How common is the name Ranaweera?
- In the United States, the national register counted 115 people named Ranaweera in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Ranaweera compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Ranaweera is the 74th most common surname of 20,196 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ranaweeraThe 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, “Ranaweera” — the 74th most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.