Prabhu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘mighty’, ‘king’, an epithet of Surya, the sun god, and of Agni, god of fire
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɹəbhu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Prabhu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 573K(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 11K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 17K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, 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)
Sanskrit: ‘mighty’, ‘king’, an epithet of Surya, the sun god, and of Agni, god of fire.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Prabhu 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 | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Prabhu | 25 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Prabhu | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Prabhu | 26 |
| US United States | — | 581 | 1 in 573K | 2.2K | Prabhu | 249 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Prabhu | 41 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 163K | 1 | — | 1 |
| IN India | #646 | — | — | 5.2K | Prabhu | 227 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Prabhu 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.
effector; creator. mighty; powerful; rich; abundant; eternal; master; lord; king; god.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Agni (५); a king (M); name of many men
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In German, männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sanskrit, prabhu »mächtig«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In English, A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, lord
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)
- Vasant Prabhub. 1922INIndian composer
- Peter Paul Prabhub. 1931INIndian nuncio
- Gokuldas Prabhub. 1954INIndian writer (born 1954)
- Manjiri Prabhub. 1964INIndian author, TV producer and filmmaker
- Prabhu Naik Naidu Konab. 1964INbadminton player
- Venkat Prabhub. 1975INIndian actor
- Vikram Prabhub. 1986INIndian film actor
- Samantha Ruth Prabhub. 1987INIndian actress
- Sapna Prabhub. 1989BHbadminton player
- Maya PrabhuUSAmerican medical doctor practicing in psychiatry and an international jurist in international health law and sustainable development
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 36 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Prabhu mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘mighty’, ‘king’, an epithet of Surya, the sun god, and of Agni, god of fire. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Prabhu?
- A machine transcription gives /pɹəbhu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Prabhu a male or female name?
- Prabhu 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 Prabhu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Prabhu in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prabhu.
- How common is the name Prabhu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 581 people named Prabhu in 2020, about 1 in 573 thousand residents.
- How common is Prabhu compared with other names?
- In India, Prabhu is the 646th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names 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/prabhuThe 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, “Prabhu” — the 646th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.