Subramaniam
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/subramaniam/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Subramaniam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks and Worcs;. see Souch .
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 675(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 9.1K
- USUnited States1 in 289K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 253 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 675 (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks and Worcs;. see Souch .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Subramaniam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #64 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 675 | 830 | Subramaniam | 110 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Subramaniam | 29 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #872 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Subramaniam | 33 |
| US United States | — | 1,151 | 1 in 289K | 1.6K | Subramaniam | 253 |
| SG Singapore | #805 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Subramaniam | 67 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 463 | 1 in 18K | 463 | Subramaniam | 25 |
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: data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Chidambaram Subramaniamb. 1910INIndian politician (1910-2000)
- Subramaniam Sinniahb. 1944MYMalaysian politician
- L. Subramaniamb. 1947INIndian musician (1947— )
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)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 574 | #36,716 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 463 | #2,821 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Subramaniam mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks and Worcs;. see Souch . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Subramaniam?
- A machine transcription gives /subramaniam/ (IPA) for Malay.
- In which country does Subramaniam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Subramaniam in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled subramaniam.
- How common is the name Subramaniam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,151 people named Subramaniam in 2010, about 1 in 289 thousand residents.
- How common is Subramaniam compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Subramaniam is the 64th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/subramaniamThe 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, “Subramaniam” — the 64th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.