Sarla
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Sarla is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 320Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 480Kfew records
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 Sarla 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈430,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled সরলা in BD Bangladesh.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sarla 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 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 1.3K | Sarla | 101 |
| US United States | 551as Sala | 1 in 604K | 4.4K | Sarla | 103 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 812K | — | Sarla | 22 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 936K | — | সরলা | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Sarla | 39 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 317K | — | Sarla | 12 |
| IE Ireland | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 348K | — | Sarla | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 14as Sala | 1 in 302K | 87 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 11 | 1 in 507K | 145 | — | 1 |
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 2010; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)- Sarla Behnb. 1901GBEnglish Gandhian social activist
- Sarla Thakralb. 1914INIndian aviator
- Sarla Maheshwarib. 1954INIndian television journalist
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 438 | #22,463 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #19,223 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #18,458 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 11 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 10 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #22,463 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1970 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1987 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1976 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1964 | 4 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Sarla a male or female name?
- Sarla is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Sarla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 435 thousand people named Sarla in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarla.
- How common is the name Sarla?
- In Finland, the national register counted 11 people named Sarla, about 1 in 507 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sarla?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarlaThe 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, “Sarla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.