Heshan

given name · Sinhala · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Heshan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka. It appears chiefly in Sinhala and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 1.5K◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 212K
  • SESweden1 in 567K

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

≈20 ●

across 2 countries

Sources
53 ●

4.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 567K ◐

Sweden

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 in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Heshan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka#1209783.3K rec.——Heshan52
AU Australia—548551 rec.——Heshan45
US United States—361360 rec.——Heshan53
GB United Kingdom—6235 rec.——Heshan18
IT Italy—2838 rec.——Heshan6
SE Sweden—18—1 in 567K18——
SG Singapore—1823 rec.——Heshan5
CA Canada—1111 rec.—1Heshan5
DE Germany—1113 rec.——Heshan12
MY Malaysia—118 rec.——Heshan6
NZ New Zealand—99 rec.——Heshan2
CN China—71 rec.——Heshan6

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

Languages●

  • Sinhala1.1K42%
  • English90534%
  • Arabic1044%
  • Chinese954%
  • Hindi773%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Sinhala1,11842%
English90534%
Arabic1044%
Chinese954%
Hindi773%

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◐

Heshan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Chinese given name298 records spelled Heshan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China

    Also written He-Shan

  • a separate given name45 records spelled Heshan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States

    Also written He-Shan

32 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 5 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Heshan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—18#26,193
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—18#30,894
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#46,620
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262#13,168
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20241#2,319
IN IndiaIndian names with gender (Kaggle)———

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Heshan?
We estimate roughly 20 people bear Heshan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Heshan have the most bearers?
Heshan is most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is most often spelled heshan.
How common is Heshan compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Heshan is the 120th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
Is Heshan a male or female name?
Heshan 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.
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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, “Heshan” — the 120th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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