Sarat
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Sarat is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common given name. Sarat is also written สุรศ in Thai, Сурат in Cyrillic and শরৎ in Bengali.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 4.7M
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 1.1Kas Sarath
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 Sarat itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #570 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950,000 named Suraj, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sarat in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Cyrillic and 5 more
(measured from records)14 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Suraj in IN India, US United States, NG Nigeria and 2 more, สุรัตน์ in TH Thailand and Sarath in LK Sri Lanka.
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 across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sarat 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 | #55 | ≈950,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 2.2K | Suraj | 293 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Suraj | 51 |
| TH Thailand | #145 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | register #629,517 | สุรัตน์ | 127 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #39 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Sarath | 61 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Suraj | 42 |
| US United States | — | 2,767as Surya | 1 in 120K | 7.4K | Suraj | 285 |
| GY Guyana | #200 | 355as Suraj | 1 in 2.1K | 355 | Suraj | 4 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sarat is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zlm, heavily laden; of full burden; of a ship full of cargo; of a camel with a heavy load of provisions; of a woman heavy with child
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In iba, heavily laden, fully loaded, deep in the water (of boats with little freeboard)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Hungarian, accusative singular of sár
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, flat; snub (of one's nose)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, nominative plural of sara
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tsg, token, mark, indication
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)- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyayb. 1876INBengali novelist and short story writer (1876-1938)
- Sarat Pujarib. 1934INIndian actor
- Sarat Maharajb. 1951ZASouth African writer
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sarat a male or female name?
- Sarat is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Sarat?
- Mondonomo estimates about 952 thousand people named Suraj in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sarat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,767 people named Surya in 2020, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
- How common is Sarat compared with other names?
- In India, Sarat is the 55th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sarat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saratThe 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, “Sarat” — ranked 2900th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.