Susheela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Sanskrit, popular among Hindu women
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Susheela is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 18Kas Susila(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 81Kas Susila
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 270Kas Sushila
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 Susheela 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- #881 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 named Susila, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est., as Susila
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sushila in IN India, US United States, ZA South Africa and 2 more and Susila in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, SG Singapore and 1 more.
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)A female given name from Sanskrit, popular among Hindu women.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Susheela 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 | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 81K | listed | Susila | 100 |
| MY Malaysia | #885 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 313 | Susila | 24 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Susila | 13 |
| US United States | — | 1,182as Sushila | 1 in 281K | 1.2K | Sushila | 137 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Sushila | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Susila | 12 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Sushila | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 19as Sushila | 1 in 39K | 19 | Sushila | 2 |
| IN India | #101 | — | — | 52 | Sushila | 136 |
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; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Susheela Misrab. 1920INMisra, Susheela, 1920-1998
- Susheela Gopalanb. 1929INIndian politician (1929–2001)
- Susheela Laxman Bangarub. 1948INIndian politician
- Susheela Ramanb. 1973GBEnglish singer
- Susheela BurfordGBBritish archaeologist, fl. 2020; Finds Liaison Officer for Warwickshire and Worcestershire
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 14K | #434 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 226 | #35,338 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 8 | #586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #35,338 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Susheela mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Sanskrit, popular among Hindu women. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Susheela?
- In the etymology graph, Sushila is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Susheela a male or female name?
- Susheela is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Susheela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Susila in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Susheela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,182 people named Sushila in 2020, about 1 in 281 thousand residents.
- How common is Susheela compared with other names?
- In India, Susheela is the 101st 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/susheelaThe 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, “Susheela” — the 101st most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.