Sunitha
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sunitha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 13th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Indra (५); a Rsi (M); name of many men.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 7.9Kas Sunita(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 33Kas Santa
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 66Kas Sunita
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 Sunitha 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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #318 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 294 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 named Sunita, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sunita in IN India, US United States, KW Kuwait and 4 more and Sanita in BR Brazil, LV Latvia.
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)
Indra (५); a Rsi (M); name of many men
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sunitha 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 | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 658 | 3 | Sunita | 72 |
| BR Brazil | — | 17,650as Santa | 1 in 12K | 23K | Sanita | 46 |
| US United States | — | 10,149as Santa | 1 in 33K | 9.7K | Sunita | 294 |
| LV Latvia | #616 | 5,721as Santa | 1 in 329 | 5.7K | Sanita | 28 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 66K | listed | Sunita | 68 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Sunitha | 22 |
| GY Guyana | #86 | 561as Sunita | 1 in 1.3K | 561 | Sunita | 8 |
| QA Qatar | #398 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Sunita | 12 |
| KW Kuwait | #376 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Sunita | 18 |
| IN India | #13 | — | — | 230 | Sunita | 234 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6.2K | #428 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 632 | #820 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 37 | #514 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 33 | #58,079 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #1,142 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #22,227 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #43,017 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sunitha mean, and where does it come from?
- Indra (५); a Rsi (M); name of many men Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Sunitha a male or female name?
- Sunitha 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.
- In which country does Sunitha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Sunita in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sunitha?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 17,650 people named Santa in 2022, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Sunitha compared with other names?
- In India, Sunitha is the 13th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sunithaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sunitha” — the 13th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.