Ganga
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Bhisma (K)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡaŋə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ganga is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 210K(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 845
- GYGuyana1 in 4.9K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 845 (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Bhisma (K)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ganga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 845 | — | Ganga | 56 |
| US United States | — | 1,584 | 1 in 210K | 1.1K | Ganga | 195 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Ganga | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Ganga | 21 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Ganga | 18 |
| GY Guyana | — | 152 | 1 in 4.9K | 152 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Ganga | 16 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Ganga | 3 |
| IN India | #322 | — | — | 2.8K | Ganga | 176 |
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; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ganga is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sans krit. Gang» »der Fluss Ganges«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
holy river; Ganges
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In Portuguese, gangue (earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Zulu, to be impudent, to be mischievous, to be naughty
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, Ganges (a major river in India and Bangladesh)
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)
- Tjait Gangab. 1936SRSurinamese musician and writer
- Dieudonné Gangab. 1945CGRepublic of the Congo politician
- Wilson Gangab. 1992AOAngolan businessman
- Eugenia Gangab. 1998ARArgentinian tennis player
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 49 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1966 | 4.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #8,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 493 | #8,969 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 152 | #443 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 87 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| IN India | A Genealogist's Guide to Indian Names (Ellefson, 2002) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Sunama Sarit — Sanskrit Names (2020) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Ganga mean, and where does it come from?
- Bhisma (K) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Ganga?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaŋə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Ganga a male or female name?
- Ganga is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ganga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Ganga in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ganga.
- How common is the name Ganga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,584 people named Ganga in 2020, about 1 in 210 thousand residents.
- How common is Ganga compared with other names?
- In India, Ganga is the 322nd 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/gangaThe 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, “Ganga” — the 322nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.