Weerasinghe
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/viːrsiŋha/(machine-generated) Sinhala · model-generated · read from වීරසිංහ
Weerasinghe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common surname. Weerasinghe is also written වීරසිංහ in Sinhala.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 270(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 150K
- NONorway1 in 249K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 270 (inferred from the name graph)
≈81,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Weerasinghe in other scripts: Sinhala
(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.
How to pronounce Weerasinghe
- Sinhala:/viːrsiŋha/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Weerasinghe is found
(measured from records)Weerasinghe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #31 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 270 | — | Weerasinghe | 91 |
| US United States | — | 320 | 1 in 1M | 391 | Weerasinghe | 170 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Weerasinghe | 9 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Weerasinghe | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 576K | 208 | Weerasinghe | 50 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Weerasinghe | 23 |
| NO Norway | — | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 148K | listed | — | 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Oliver Weerasingheb. 1907LKSri Lankan ambassador and architect (1907-1980)
- Rohana Weerasingheb. 1949LKSri Lanakan musician
- Upuli Samanthika Weerasingheb. 1994LKbadminton player
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Weerasinghe?
- In Sinhala /viːrsiŋha/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Weerasinghe?
- Mondonomo estimates about 81 thousand people named Weerasinghe in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weerasinghe. After it come United States, Malaysia, Italy and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Weerasinghe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 320 people named Weerasinghe in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Weerasinghe compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Weerasinghe is the 31st most common surname of 20,196 surnames 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/weerasingheThe 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, “Weerasinghe” — the 31st most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.