Bandara
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bændɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bandara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 106(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 87K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 120K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 106 (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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
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)
Bandara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #3 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 106 | — | Bandara | 114 |
| IN India | — | 1,060 | 1 in 1.3M | 1.1K | Bandara | 24 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Bandara | 19 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 247K | — | Bandara | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 170K | — | Bandara | 18 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Bandara | 18 |
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. 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)
Bandara 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 Indonesian, airport
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)
- Ranjith Bandarab. 1961LKSri Lankan economist, academic and politician
- Mahesh Bandarab. 1982LKSri Lankan cricketer
- Devendra Herathb. 1990AUnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Damitha Bandaramathematical author
- M. P. U. BandaraGBresearcher
- Nihal BandaraCNresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bandara?
- A machine transcription gives /bændɑɹə/ (IPA) for Sinhala.
- In which country does Bandara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 217 thousand people named Bandara in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bandara.
- How common is the name Bandara?
- In India, the national register counted 1,060 people named Bandara, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Bandara compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Bandara is the 3rd most common surname of 20,196 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bandaraThe 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, “Bandara” — the 3rd most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.