Roshani
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Kiswahili: 'balcony'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Roshani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- NPNepal≈1 in 3.4K
- GYGuyana1 in 38K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kiswahili: 'balcony'
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roshani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Roshani | 35 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #448 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Roshani | 41 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 602K | listed | Roshani | 6 |
| US United States | — | 380 | 1 in 875K | 380 | Roshani | 90 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Roshani | 14 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 196K | 1 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 20 | 1 in 38K | 20 | — | — |
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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Roshani is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, balcony, veranda
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roshni Nadarb. 1982INnot in their usual nameIndian businesswoman
- Roshni Kapoorb. 1989INnot in their usual nameIndian television and film actress (born 1989)
- Roshani Chokshib. 1991USAmerican novelist
- Roshni Bhudiab. 2000GBnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Roshni Waliab. 2001INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 380 | #25,086 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 20 | #574 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2012 | 1 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- What does the name Roshani mean, and where does it come from?
- Kiswahili: 'balcony' Recorded by African Names.
- Is Roshani a male or female name?
- Roshani is a female 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 Roshani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Roshani in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roshani.
- How common is the name Roshani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 380 people named Roshani in 2020, about 1 in 875 thousand residents.
- How common is Roshani compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Roshani is the 448th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roshaniThe 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, “Roshani” — the 448th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.