Songkran
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Buddhist New Year
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Songkran is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 3Kas สงกรานต์(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 408K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 623K
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 Songkran 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 408K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 named สงกรานต์, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)13 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled สงกรานต์ in TH Thailand.
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)Buddhist New Year
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Songkran 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #399 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | register #229,474 | สงกรานต์ | 113 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 623K | — | Songkran | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 9.6M | — | Songkran | 30 |
| SE Sweden | — | 25 | 1 in 408K | 25 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 700K | — | Songkran | 5 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1as Songkrant | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Songkran 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 English, The traditional New Year celebrated in several Southeast Asian countries when the sun enters the constellation of Aries.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,623 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Songkran mean, and where does it come from?
- Buddhist New Year Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Songkran a male or female name?
- Songkran 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 Songkran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named สงกรานต์ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Songkran most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Songkran is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 408 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Songkran?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 25 people named Songkran, about 1 in 408 thousand residents.
- How common is Songkran compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Songkran is the 399th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Songkran?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/songkranThe 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, “Songkran” — the 399th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.