Asanka
given name · Sinhala · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Asanka is a given name, most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Sinhala and English, written in the Latin script.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 676◐
- QAQatar1 in 18K
- BHBahrain1 in 42K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈58 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 78 ●
- 1 in 283K ◐
across 3 countries
recorded for this name
6.7K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #29 | 2,118 | 5.8K rec. | — | — | Asanka | 74 |
| US United States | — | 350 | 301 rec. | — | — | Asanka | 78 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 163 | 41 rec. | — | — | Asanka | 29 |
| QA Qatar | #943 | 127 | 163 rec. | — | — | Asanka | 9 |
| IT Italy | — | 111 | 119 rec. | — | — | Asanka | 11 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 111 | 113 rec. | — | — | Asanka | 22 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 72 | 15 rec. | — | — | Asanka | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 36△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 283K | 36 | — | 4 |
| KW Kuwait | — | 34 | 46 rec. | — | — | Asanka | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 29 | 24 rec. | — | — | Asanka | 9 |
| IN India | — | 27 | 9 rec. | — | — | Asanka | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 26 | 13 rec. | — | — | Asanka | 8 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Sinhala2.8K50%
- English1.4K26%
- Arabic3697%
- Japanese1683%
- Hindi1593%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Sinhala | 2,846 | 50% |
| English | 1,448 | 26% |
| Arabic | 369 | 7% |
| Japanese | 168 | 3% |
| Hindi | 159 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 36 | #16,976 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 14 | #8,162 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #10,867 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #7,655 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Asanka?
- We estimate roughly 58 people bear Asanka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Asanka have the most bearers?
- Asanka is most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is most often spelled asanka.
- How common is Asanka compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Asanka is the 29th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Asanka a male or female name?
- Asanka 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asankaThe 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. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Asanka” — the 29th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.