Sakuntula
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sakuntula is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 64Kas ศกุนตลา(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 493Kas Shakuntala
- GYGuyana1 in 7.1Kas Shakuntala
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 Sakuntula 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 named ศกุนตลา, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana, as Shakuntala
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shakuntala in IN India, US United States, GY Guyana and 2 more, Sakuntala in MY Malaysia, NP Nepal and ศกุนตลา in TH Thailand.
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)
Sakuntula 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 64K | #629,234 | ศกุนตลา | 60 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Sakuntala | 19 |
| US United States | — | 675as Shakuntala | 1 in 493K | 675 | Shakuntala | 108 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 959K | — | Shakuntala | 36 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Sakuntala | 12 |
| GY Guyana | — | 106as Shakuntala | 1 in 7.1K | 106 | Shakuntala | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Shakuntala | 1 |
| IN India | #198 | — | — | 30 | Shakuntala | 118 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sakuntula a male or female name?
- Sakuntula 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 Sakuntula have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named ศกุนตลา in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sakuntula most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sakuntula itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 7.1 thousand people named Shakuntala.
- How common is the name Sakuntula?
- In the United States, the national register counted 675 people named Shakuntala in 2020, about 1 in 493 thousand residents.
- How common is Sakuntula compared with other names?
- In India, Sakuntula is the 198th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sakuntula?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakuntulaThe 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, “Sakuntula” — the 198th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.