Sneha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: name of Vaisyas in Kugadvipa (P)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sneha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.3Kas Sinha(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 8.4Kas Sinha
- USUnited States1 in 82Kas Sinha
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 Sneha 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)
- #802 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
157,938 named Sinha
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est., as Sinha
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sinha in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 2 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)
name of Vaisyas in Kugadvipa (P)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sneha 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 | #136 | 157,938as Sinha | 1 in 8.4K | 158K | Sinha | 294 |
| BD Bangladesh | #255 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Sinha | 62 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Sinha | 39 |
| US United States | — | 4,066as Sinha | 1 in 82K | 6.5K | Sinha | 360 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Sneha | 41 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Sneha | 61 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Sinha | 66 |
157,938 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Sneha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovenian, alternative form of snáha (“daughter-in-law”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, affection, love
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)
- Sneha Anne Philipb. 1969INVictim of September 11 attacks (1969–2001)
- Sneha SinghINPhD candidate at Auckland University
- Sneha H. RaoUSassistant professor of clinical anesthesia
- Sneha NarayanUSresearcher
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 35 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 7K | #735 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.2K | #4,464 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 1.4K | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 1.3K | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1994 | 1.3K | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1995 | 1.1K | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1991 | 1.1K | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 128 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #4,464 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| IN India | Sunama Sarit — Sanskrit Names (2020) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Sneha mean, and where does it come from?
- name of Vaisyas in Kugadvipa (P) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Sneha a male or female name?
- Sneha 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 Sneha have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 158 thousand people named Sinha, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sneha?
- In India, the national register counted 157,938 people named Sinha, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Sneha compared with other names?
- In India, Sneha is the 136th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/snehaThe 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, “Sneha” — the 136th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.