Ishara
given name · Sinhala · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ishara is a given name, most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Sinhala and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Kiswahili: a signal, a sign.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 667◐
- INIndia1 in 2.2M
- NLNetherlands1 in 152K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈338 ●
- Sources
- 79 ●
- 1 in 152K ◐
across 7 countries
9.3K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
Kiswahili: a signal, a sign
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #28 | 2,146 | 6.8K rec. | — | — | Ishara | 60 |
| IN India | — | 1,500 | 779 rec. | — | 2 | Ishara | 29 |
| AU Australia | — | 723 | 729 rec. | — | — | Ishara | 54 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 198 | 190 rec. | — | — | Ishara | 11 |
| US United States | — | 156 | 569 rec. | 1 in 2.1M | 156 | Ishara | 79 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 114△ | 31 rec. | 1 in 152K | 114 | Ishara | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 102 | 64 rec. | — | — | Ishara | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 55△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 186K | 55 | — | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 29 | 28 rec. | — | — | Ishara | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | 27 | 36 rec. | — | — | Ishara | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | 20 | 26 rec. | — | 1 | Ishara | 10 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 13 | 11 rec. | — | — | Ishara | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Sinhala2.2K28%
- English1.7K22%
- Hindi1.6K21%
- Swahili2633%
- 2573%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Sinhala | 2,153 | 28% |
| English | 1,651 | 22% |
| Hindi | 1,623 | 21% |
| Swahili | 263 | 3% |
| 257 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ishara is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hausa, sign, signal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2025 | 10 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 14 years between 1991–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 98 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ishara?
- We estimate roughly 338 people bear Ishara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ishara have the most bearers?
- Ishara is most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is most often spelled ishara.
- How common is Ishara compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Ishara is the 28th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Ishara a male or female name?
- Ishara 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.
- What does the name Ishara mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kiswahili: a signal, a sign
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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, “Ishara” — the 28th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.