Sanaka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a Rsi (P); Balarama (N); Siva (N)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sanaka is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a Rsi (P); Balarama (N); Siva (N)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanaka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 543 | Sanaka | 3 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | listed | — | 3 |
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; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
- Sō Sanakab. 1903JPJapanese historian (1903-1992)
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1995 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1987 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1973 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1996 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1989 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1988 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1981 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1970 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1997 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1994 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1991 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Sanaka mean, and where does it come from?
- a Rsi (P); Balarama (N); Siva (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Sanaka a male or female name?
- Sanaka 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 Sanaka have the most bearers?
- Sanaka is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sanaka.
What do you want to know about Sanaka?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanakaThe 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, “Sanaka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.