Lahiru
given name · Sinhala · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lahiru is a given name, most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Sinhala and English, written in the Latin script.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 348◐
- QAQatar1 in 36K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 77K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈18 ●
- Sources
- 77 ●
- 1 in 175K ◐
across 3 countries
12K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
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 | #5 | 4,111 | 11K rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 75 |
| US United States | — | 216 | 168 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 77 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 101 | 42 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 30 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 96 | 85 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 20 |
| QA Qatar | — | 64 | 72 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 8 |
| IT Italy | — | 63 | 63 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | 33 | 27 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 20 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 27 | 16 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 11 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 27 | 8 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 25 | 26 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 11 |
| IN India | — | 23 | 9 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | 22 | 19 rec. | — | — | Lahiru | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Sinhala4.6K64%
- English1.5K21%
- Japanese2644%
- Arabic2183%
- Hindi1222%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Sinhala | 4,624 | 64% |
| English | 1,500 | 21% |
| Japanese | 264 | 4% |
| Arabic | 218 | 3% |
| Hindi | 122 | 2% |
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 15 | #7,911 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #7,775 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | #11,658 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1993 | 1 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1 | #106,860 |
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 Lahiru?
- We estimate roughly 18 people bear Lahiru (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lahiru have the most bearers?
- Lahiru is most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is most often spelled lahiru.
- How common is Lahiru compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Lahiru is the 5th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Lahiru a male or female name?
- Lahiru 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
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, “Lahiru” — the 5th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.