Niranjan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: name of a god
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɲiɹənʒən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Niranjan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 265K(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 3.5K
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 5.7K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
name of a god
Sources 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niranjan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Niranjan | 47 |
| BD Bangladesh | #940 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Niranjan | 23 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #559 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Niranjan | 37 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Niranjan | 7 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Niranjan | 15 |
| US United States | — | 1,256 | 1 in 265K | 1.2K | Niranjan | 236 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Niranjan | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Niranjan | 22 |
| IN India | #461 | — | — | 809 | Niranjan | 223 |
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. 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)
- Niranjan Prasad Chakrabortib. 1893INIndian archaeologist (1893 –1956)
- Niranjan Das Gulhatib. 1904INIndian civil engineer
- Niranjan Goswamib. 1941INIndian curator
- Niranjan Patnaikb. 1948INpolitician from Odisha, India
- Niranjan Sual Singhb. 1961INIndian priest
- Niranjan Wijesekerab. 1962LKbadminton player
- Niranjan Jyotib. 1967INIndian politician
- Niranjan Kissoonb. 2000JMresearcher
- Niranjan S. Karnikb. 2000USresearcher
- Niranjan Karakb. 2000INresearcher
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)
Attested in 36 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Niranjan mean, and where does it come from?
- name of a god Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- How do you pronounce Niranjan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲiɹənʒən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Niranjan a male or female name?
- Niranjan is a male 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.
- In which country does Niranjan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Niranjan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niranjan.
- How common is the name Niranjan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,256 people named Niranjan in 2020, about 1 in 265 thousand residents.
- How common is Niranjan compared with other names?
- In India, Niranjan is the 461st 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/niranjanThe 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, “Niranjan” — the 461st most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.