Vishwanath
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘lord of all’, a byname of Shiva
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vʲɪʃwɑnəθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vishwanath is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 862K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 36K
- BHBahrain≈1 in 44K
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 Vishwanath 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bishwanath in BD Bangladesh.
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: ‘lord of all’, a byname of Shiva. Y Vv
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vishwanath 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Vishwanath | 3 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Vishwanath | 1 |
| US United States | — | 386 | 1 in 862K | 393 | Vishwanath | 170 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 677K | — | Bishwanath | 14 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Vishwanath | 25 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Vishwanath | 4 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Vishwanath | 6 |
| GY Guyana | — | 21 | 1 in 36K | 21 | — | 1 |
| IN India | #401 | — | — | 675 | Vishwanath | 183 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vishwanath Mathurb. 1912Indian independence 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)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
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
- Where does the name Vishwanath come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘lord of all’, a byname of Shiva. Y Vv Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Vishwanath?
- A machine transcription gives /vʲɪʃwɑnəθ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Vishwanath mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘lord of all’, a byname of Shiva.
- Is Vishwanath a male or female name?
- Vishwanath is a male 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 Vishwanath have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Vishwanath in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vishwanath.
- Where is Vishwanath most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vishwanath is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vishwanath?
- In the United States, the national register counted 386 people named Vishwanath in 2020, about 1 in 862 thousand residents.
- How common is Vishwanath compared with other names?
- In India, Vishwanath is the 401st 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/vishwanathThe 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, “Vishwanath” — the 401st most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.