Santara
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɑntɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Santara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 9.9K(measured from records)
- MLMali≈1 in 58K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 407K
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 Santara 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
133,801 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Soontara 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.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Santara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #853 | 133,801 | 1 in 9.9K | 134K | Santara | 35 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 407K | — | Santara | 38 |
| ML Mali | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Santara | 2 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Santara | 5 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 674K | #173,876 | Soontara | 25 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 465K | — | Santara | 9 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 607K | listed | — | — |
133,801 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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. 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)
- Sandara Parkb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper, singer, model and actress (1984-)
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 134K | #154 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #14,128 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Santara?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑntɑɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Santara have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 134 thousand people named Santara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santara.
- Where is Santara most common?
- Santara is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Santara?
- In India, the national register counted 133,801 people named Santara, about 1 in 9.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Santara compared with other names?
- In India, Santara is the 853rd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Santara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/santaraThe 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, “Santara” — the 853rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.