Sanat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Indra (V); Visnu (N)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sənət/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sanat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 8.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 5.1Kas Санат
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 Sanat 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 named Sanath, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Санат in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more and Sanath in LK Sri Lanka, QA Qatar.
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)
Indra (V); Visnu (N)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanat 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 | #185 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Sanath | 51 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #613 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 2.4K | Санат | 39 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #536 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Санат | 14 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Sanat | 23 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 188K | #1,900 | Санат | 95 |
| US United States | — | 254 | 1 in 1.3M | 243 | Sanat | 123 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Санат | 10 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Sanath | 6 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Sanat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Brahma (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
ancient
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of sānō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, nominative plural of sana
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, year
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)
- Sanat Mehtab. 1925INIndian politician and social activist
- Sanat Kumar Sahab. 1941BDEkushey Padak recipient
- Sanat Kumar Mandalb. 1942INIndian politician
- Sanat Bhattacharjeeb. 1956INIndian cricketer
- Sanat Misrab. 1962INbadminton player
- Sanat Shikhovb. 1989Uzbekistani footballer
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 243 | #32,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #32,873 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Sanat mean, and where does it come from?
- Indra (V); Visnu (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Sanat?
- A machine transcription gives /sənət/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sanat a male or female name?
- Sanat is a male 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 Sanat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Sanath in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sanat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 254 people named Sanat in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Sanat compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Sanat is the 185th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sanat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanatThe 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, “Sanat” — the 185th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.