Shanmugam
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃʌnmʊɡəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shanmugam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Tamil சண்முகம் (caṇmukam).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 461K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 9.2K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Tamil சண்முகம் (caṇmukam).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shanmugam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #534 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Shanmugam | 70 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Shanmugam | 14 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Shanmugam | 2 |
| US United States | — | 721 | 1 in 461K | 1.3K | Shanmugam | 194 |
| SG Singapore | #716 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Shanmugam | 56 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Shanmugam | 40 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Shanmugam | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- P. Shanmugamb. 1927INIndian politician (1927-2013)
- Kannon Shanmugamb. 1972USLaw clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Kumar ShanmugamGBresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-3386-8012
- Shankar G ShanmugamUSresearcher
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Shanmugam mean, and where does it come from?
- From Tamil சண்முகம் (caṇmukam). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Shanmugam?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃʌnmʊɡəm/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Shanmugam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Shanmugam in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shanmugam.
- How common is the name Shanmugam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 721 people named Shanmugam in 2010, about 1 in 461 thousand residents.
- How common is Shanmugam compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Shanmugam is the 534th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shanmugamThe 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, “Shanmugam” — the 534th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.