Sarla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sarla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 604Kas Sala(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 295K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 361K
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 295K (inferred from the name graph)
551 named Sala, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 551as Sala | 1 in 604K | 4.4K | Sarla | 103 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Sarla | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Sarla | 39 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 295K | — | Sarla | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 54as Sala | 1 in 3.9M | 4.3K | Sarla | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 361K | — | Sarla | 3 |
| HR Croatia | 14as Sala | 1 in 302K | 87 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 375K | — | Sarla | 1 |
| FI Finland | 11 | 1 in 507K | 145 | — | 1 |
551 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling sala. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #37,940 |
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 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 Sarla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 551 people named Sala, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sarla?
- In Finland, the national register counted 11 people named Sarla, about 1 in 507 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarlaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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 2026-10-10.