Sudha
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sudha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit सुधा (sudhā).
- USUnited States1 in 106K(measured from records)
- HUHungary1 in 617as Zita
- RURussia≈1 in 54Kas Зита
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.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
15,825 named Zita, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zita in HU Hungary, CZ Czechia, HK Hong Kong and Зита in RU Russia, 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).
Sources 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #183 | 15,825as Zita | 1 in 617 | 16K | Zita | 144 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 633 | 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 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 54K | #807 | Зита | 110 |
| CZ Czechia | #756 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | 1.7K | Zita | 40 |
| HK Hong Kong | #682 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Zita | 17 |
| LV Latvia | — | 944as Zita | 1 in 2K | 944 | Зита | 7 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sudha | 10 |
15,825 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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; 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); naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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 Shenoyb. 1943AUAustralian historian (1943–2008)
- Sudha Arorab. 1946INIndian writer (born 1946)
- Sudha Murthyb. 1950INIndian writer, philanthropist, author, motivator
- Sudha Bhattacharyab. 1952INIndian biologist
- Sudha Bharadwajb. 1961INIndian activist
- Sudha Yadavb. 1965INIndian politician
- Sudha Pennathurb. 2000INIndian businessman
- Sudha Seshadrib. 2000researcher
- Sudha MenonINauthor, columnist, writing coach
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.1K | #5,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22 | #5,452 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 5 | — |
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 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 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 Sudha have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Zita, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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 Hungary, Sudha is the 183rd most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sudha?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
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 183rd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.