Swaraj

given name · Latin script

Meaning: national or local home rule, India

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: SSA, 2021

Pronunciation:

Swaraj is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

  • INIndia≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 1.7M
  • DKDenmark1 in 2M

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 Swaraj 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)

≈25,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
145 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)

India, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
SwarajLatin(measured from records)
স্বরাজBengali(measured from records)

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)

national or local home rule, India

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Swaraj 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.

Where Swaraj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India≈25,000 est.≈1 in 57K51Swaraj145
US United States≈140 est.≈1 in 2.5M5Swaraj123
BD Bangladesh≈130 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Swaraj13
ID Indonesia≈69 est.≈1 in 4.1M—Swaraj2
MY Malaysia≈29 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Swaraj4
NL Netherlands≈12 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Swaraj6
SE Sweden61 in 1.7M6—4
GY Guyana1as Subraj1 in 750K1——

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; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Swaraj is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Arab Emirates, India, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Šwãřãj, Swàràj

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Swaraj 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, self-rule

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Svarādžs

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
Informalनमस्ते Swaraj जी,Hi Swaraj, (English)

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)

10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Swaraj
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—581#4,683
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1989117—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1992104—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1994103—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1982103—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1993102—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1991102—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198398—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199594—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198590—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198486—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199083—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Swaraj mean, and where does it come from?
national or local home rule, India Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
Is Swaraj a male or female name?
Swaraj is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset).
In which country does Swaraj have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Swaraj in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled swaraj.
How common is the name Swaraj?
In Sweden, the national register counted 6 people named Swaraj, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.

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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, “Swaraj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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