Sarmila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, Sharmila, from Sanskrit
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɑɹˈmlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sarmila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 11Kas Sharmila(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 55Kas Sharmila
- USUnited States1 in 178Kas Sharmila
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 Sarmila 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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sharmila in US United States, MY Malaysia, BD Bangladesh and 3 more.
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)
a female given name, Sharmila, from Sanskrit
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sarmila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Sharmila | 40 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Sarmila | 58 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #642 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Sharmila | 31 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 44K | listed | Sharmila | 30 |
| MY Malaysia | #752 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 540 | Sharmila | 52 |
| US United States | — | 1,865as Sharmila | 1 in 178K | 1.9K | Sharmila | 208 |
| GY Guyana | #546 | 152as Sharmila | 1 in 4.9K | 152 | Sharmila | 3 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Sarmila | 2 |
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; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); 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)
Sarmila is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
“fortunate, auspicious”
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
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.
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sarmila mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, Sharmila, from Sanskrit Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Sarmila?
- In the etymology graph, শর্মিলা is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Sarmila?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑɹˈmlə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sarmila a male or female name?
- Sarmila 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 Sarmila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Sarmila in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sharmila.
- How common is the name Sarmila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,865 people named Sharmila in 2020, about 1 in 178 thousand residents.
- How common is Sarmila compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Sarmila is the 546th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sarmila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarmilaThe 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, “Sarmila” — the 546th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.