Dilshan

given name · Sinhala · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Dilshan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Sinhala and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 327
  • SESweden1 in 222K
  • GYGuyana1 in 375K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈94

across 5 countries

Sources
75

19K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 222K

Sweden

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.

Where Dilshan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka#34,37318K rec.Dilshan75
IN India439200 rec.1Dilshan26
US United States199215 rec.5Dilshan69
GB United Kingdom8032 rec.Dilshan25
SE Sweden460 rec.1 in 222K461
CA Canada3033 rec.1Dilshan18
PL Poland251 in 1.5M25
NZ New Zealand2217 rec.Dilshan11
SG Singapore2254 rec.Dilshan6
NL Netherlands1512 rec.1 in 1.2M15Dilshan5
IT Italy70 rec.1Dilshan5
DK Denmark61 in 978K6

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • Sinhala5.2K51%
  • English2K20%
  • Hindi1.6K16%
  • Arabic2002%
  • Japanese1702%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Sinhala5,16851%
English1,97420%
Hindi1,60716%
Arabic2002%
Japanese1702%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Dilshan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name2.6K records spelled Dilshan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Australia, United States, Sri Lanka, India

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Dìlśhäń

  • Hindi given name2.5K records spelled Dilshan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • Arabic given name377 records spelled Dilshan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Arab Emirates, Syria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Ďîlshåň

  • Bangla given name249 records spelled Dilshan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written দিলশান

  • Spanish given name118 records spelled Dilshan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Dìlśhäń, Dîlshåñ

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Dilshan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)46#14,482
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202625#1,857
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)15#14,023
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200810
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls7#117,745
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)6#8,760
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)6#38,231
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19916
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20185
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20245
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20145
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20075

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 64 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dilshan?
We estimate roughly 94 people bear Dilshan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Dilshan have the most bearers?
Dilshan is most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is most often spelled dilshan.
How common is Dilshan compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Dilshan is the 3rd most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
Is Dilshan a male or female name?
Dilshan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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, “Dilshan” — the 3rd most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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