Sumita
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Sumita is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 23Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 1.4Kas Sumitra
- GYGuyana1 in 1.5Kas Sumintra
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 Sumita itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #776 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000,000 named Sumitra, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sumitra in IN India, BD Bangladesh, Smita in US United States, สุมิตรา in TH Thailand and Sumintra in GY Guyana.
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)Sumita 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #84 | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 282 | Sumitra | 203 |
| TH Thailand | #429 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | register #174,458 | สุมิตรา | 95 |
| BD Bangladesh | #790 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Sumitra | 23 |
| US United States | — | 4,999as Smith | 1 in 67K | 2.4M | Smita | 249 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 141K | register #39 | Sumita | 72 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #944 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Smitha | 44 |
| GY Guyana | #156 | 509as Sumintra | 1 in 1.5K | 3.9K | Sumintra | 1 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 7K | 259 | — | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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)Sumita 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 Polish, sumotori
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)- Sumita Mukherjeeb. 1981GBhistorian
- Sumita BhuiyaGBresearcher
- Sumita BarahmandUSPh.D. University of Southern California 2014
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- Is Sumita a male or female name?
- Sumita is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Sumita have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Sumitra in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sumita?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,999 people named Smith in 2020, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Sumita compared with other names?
- In India, Sumita is the 84th 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/sumitaThe 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, “Sumita” — the 84th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.