Sundara
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A monk of Rājagaha. One day, as he walked through the street, a woman asked him to stop for a moment that she might worship him, and, raising the end of his robe, took his penis into her month
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səndɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sundara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 102K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 144K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 197K
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
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A monk of Rājagaha. One day, as he walked through the street, a woman asked him to stop for a moment that she might worship him, and, raising the end of his robe, took his penis into her month. A doubt arose in his mind as to whether any blame attached to him and he consulted the Buddha, who said that as Sundara had not acquiesced in the act, he was blameless.1
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sundara 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 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Sundara | 18 |
| US United States | 138 | 1 in 2.4M | 382 | Sundara | 100 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 6 | Sundara | 23 |
| SG Singapore | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Sundara | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Sundara | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 842K | 1 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 677K | — | Sundara | 4 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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)
Sundara is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, A monk who, with five hundred others of the same name, was present at the Foundation Ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa.1 M L 522.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
Dattatreya (N); Krsna (N); Parsvanatha
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Basque, SUNDARA . (Precedido de tema nominal nudo). En busca de . Itxastxoriak kanpo aldetik / etozan arin kalara, / albista txarrik ezpaekarren / ziur zan arrainsundara . Echta Jos 99.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 69 | #47,349 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 69 | #47,349 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1990 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Sundara mean, and where does it come from?
- A monk of Rājagaha. One day, as he walked through the street, a woman asked him to stop for a moment that she might worship him, and, raising the end of his robe, took his penis into her month. Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H).
- How do you pronounce Sundara?
- A machine transcription gives /səndɑɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sundara a male or female name?
- Sundara is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Sundara?
- In the etymology graph, Sundar is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sundara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 227 people named Sundara in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sundara.
- How common is the name Sundara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 138 people named Sundara in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sundaraThe 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, “Sundara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.