Sujata
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘of noble birth’ or ‘of an excellent nature’
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: naampy, 2017
Sujata is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Thailand it is the 15th most common given name.
- INIndia≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 64Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 80Kfew 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 Sujata itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈910,000 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)14 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sujatha in KW Kuwait, LK Sri Lanka, สุชาดา in TH Thailand and Susi in LA Laos.
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)Sanskrit: ‘of noble birth’ or ‘of an excellent nature’. Suman <¢ Sanskrit: ‘well-disposed’, ‘cheerful’; also ‘wise’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sujata 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 | #241 | ≈910,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 432 | Sujata | 180 |
| TH Thailand | #15 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | register #175,169 | สุชาดา | 155 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #521 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Sujatha | 32 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 64K | listed | Sujata | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,675as Susi | 1 in 79K | 4.1K | Sujata | 5 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Susi | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | #977 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Sujatha | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 59 | 1 in 293K | 59 | Sujata | 10 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)Sujata 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 English, Name of the daughter of Uddalaka and mother of Ashtavakra.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Noble
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)- Sujata Naharb. 1925INHindu writer (1925-2007)
- Sujata Manoharb. 1934INIndian judge
- Sujata Koiralab. 1954NPNepalese politician
- Sujata Bhattb. 1956INIndian poet
- Sujata Mehtab. 1959INIndian actress
- Sujata Sridharb. 1961INcricketer
- Sujata Keshavanb. 1961INIndian graphic designer
- Sujata Masseyb. 1964USAmerican writer
- Sujata Mohapatrab. 1968INOdissi dancer
- Sujata Dayb. 1984USAmerican actress
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)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Sujata come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘of noble birth’ or ‘of an excellent nature’. Suman <¢ Sanskrit: ‘well-disposed’, ‘cheerful’; also ‘wise’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Sujata a male or female name?
- Sujata 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).
- What does the name Sujata mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘of noble birth’ or ‘of an excellent nature’.
- In which country does Sujata have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 907 thousand people named Sujata in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sujata.
- How common is the name Sujata?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 59 people named Sujata, about 1 in 293 thousand residents.
- How common is Sujata compared with other names?
- In India, Sujata is the 241st most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sujataThe 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, “Sujata” — the 241st most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.