Thanuja
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries
Thanuja is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 750few records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 370Kfew records
- SESweden1 in 510K
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 Thanuja 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
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 745 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named Tanuja, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tanuja in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Thanuja 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 | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 49 | Tanuja | 147 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #138 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 745 | — | Thanuja | 54 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Tanuja | 16 |
| US United States | — | 584as Tanuja | 1 in 570K | 580 | Tanuja | 174 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Tanuja | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Tanuja | 19 |
| GY Guyana | — | 109as Tanuja | 1 in 6.9K | 109 | Thanuja | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 20 | 1 in 510K | 20 | Tanuja | 4 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)- Thanuja Liyanageb. 1977LKbadminton player
- Thanuja Ananthanb. 1985MYMalaysian model and beauty queen (born 1985)
- Thanuja DharmadasaGBresearcher
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 145 | #17,656 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #12,192 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Is Thanuja a male or female name?
- Thanuja is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset).
- In which country does Thanuja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 115 thousand people named Tanuja in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Thanuja?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 20 people named Thanuja, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
- How common is Thanuja compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Thanuja is the 138th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Thanuja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thanujaThe 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, “Thanuja” — the 138th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.