Sudha
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Sudha is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit सुधा (sudhā).
- INIndia≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 20Kfew records
- KWKuwait≈1 in 24Kfew 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 Sudha 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈990,000 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 Zita in HU Hungary, SK Slovakia and Зита in LV Latvia.
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)From Sanskrit सुधा (sudhā).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sudha 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 | #289 | ≈990,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 6.3K | Sudha | 217 |
| HU Hungary | #183 | 15,825as Zita | 1 in 617 | 16K | Zita | 144 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 522 | 16K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,274as Zita | 1 in 65K | 4.4K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 3,151 | 1 in 106K | 3.1K | Sudha | 268 |
| SK Slovakia | #350 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 33 | Zita | 41 |
| LV Latvia | — | 944as Zita | 1 in 2K | 944 | Зита | 7 |
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; Registrų centras — top-50 given names; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)Sudha 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.
In English, A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
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)- Sudha Shivpurib. 1937INIndian actress (1937-2015)
- Sudha Murthyb. 1950INIndian writer, philanthropist, author, motivator
- Sudha Bharadwajb. 1961INIndian activist
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sudha mean, and where does it come from?
- From Sanskrit सुधा (sudhā). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Sudha a male or female name?
- Sudha is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Sudha?
- Mondonomo estimates about 985 thousand people named Sudha in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sudha. After it come Hungary, Lithuania, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sudha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,151 people named Sudha in 2020, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
- How common is Sudha compared with other names?
- In India, Sudha is the 289th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sudha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sudhaThe 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, “Sudha” — the 289th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.