Lakshman

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Lakshman is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 77th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘having auspicious marks’, name of the half-brother and faithful companion of Rama in the Ramayana, regarded as a partial incarnation of Vishnu.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 371◐
  • INIndia1 in 1K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 40K

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

≈778 ●

across 7 countries

#805 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
190 ●

1.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 23K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

LaxmanLatin · Hindi●1.5M records
লক্ষ্মণBengali · Bangla●241 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Laxman in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 12 more, Lakshan in LK Sri Lanka, AU Australia, NZ New Zealand and Lakkhan in PK Pakistan.

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●

Sanskrit: ‘having auspicious marks’, name of the half-brother and faithful companion of Rama in the Ramayana, regarded as a partial incarnation of Vishnu.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Where in the world●

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

Where Lakshman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#773,243,3451.9M rec.—1.1KLaxman190
LK Sri Lanka#73,85616K rec.——Lakshan59
AU Australia—1,8442.4K rec.—1Lakshan62
MY Malaysia—1,610753 rec.——Laxman20
GB United Kingdom—1,5091.1K rec.—listedLaxman53
US United States—52112K rec.1 in 638K521Laxman154
NP Nepal—4231.3K rec.——Laxman60
CA Canada—293431 rec.—1Lakshman24
SG Singapore—283398 rec.——Laxman17
BD Bangladesh—214137 rec.——Laxman18
VN Vietnam—1387 rec.——Laxman6
DE Germany—130166 rec.—1Laxman28

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

Languages●

  • Hindi998K67%
  • 302K20%
  • English49K3%
  • Telugu38K3%
  • Assamese38K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi998,06667%
302,23720%
English49,4533%
Telugu38,1243%
Assamese38,1213%

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◐

Lakshman is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name1.8K records spelled Lakshman4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Panama

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Làkshmán

  • Russian given name176 records spelled Lakshman10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Lakshmana, Лакшмана, Лакшман

  • a separate name127 records spelled Lakshman5 spellings in the group

    Also written Lakshmana, ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಣ

30 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.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020008.3K · 1983

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Lakshman in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1896–2017
Yearrecords
18961
18981
18995
19002
19061
19081
19111
19121
19133
19142
19151
19167
191716
191822
191928
192077
192155
192275
1923101
192473
1925104
1926125
1927129
1928146
1929189
1930165
1931306
1932356
1933351
1934468
1935506
1936623
1937689
1938683
1939869
1940964
19411,200
19421,288
19431,315
19441,495
19451,586
19461,845
19471,967
19481,787
19491,817
19502,418
19512,824
19522,860
19532,492
19542,929
19553,016
19563,844
19573,592
19583,722
19594,464
19603,732
19614,890
19625,163
19634,878
19644,968
19655,225
19665,614
19675,805
19685,078
19695,618
19705,815
19716,226
19726,203
19736,191
19745,496
19755,624
19765,994
19775,785
19785,935
19796,256
19805,193
19817,214
19827,969
19838,304
19847,671
19857,475
19866,083
19877,613
19887,007
19897,193
19906,988
19917,006
19927,417
19937,369
19947,232
19955,750
19963,656
19973,682
19982,652
1999223
20006
20014
20024
20051
20061
200715
2008838
20097
2010392
2011231
2012138
201397
20141,246
2015233
20162
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 111 years between 1896–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Lakshman Jayakody, b. 1930Lakshman Kadirgamar, b. 1932Lakshman Algama, b. 1940Lakshman Chandra Seth, b. 1946Lakshman Kiriella, b. 1948Lakshman Singh, b. 1955Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, b. 1955Lakshman Senewiratne, b. 1957Lakshman Wasantha Perera, b. 1963

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 27 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Lakshman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—784K#2
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—38K#150
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19838.3K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19828K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19847.7K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19877.6K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19857.5K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19927.4K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19937.4K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19947.2K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19817.2K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19897.2K—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 245 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lakshman?
We estimate roughly 778 people bear Lakshman (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Lakshman have the most bearers?
Lakshman is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled laxman.
How common is Lakshman compared with other names?
In India, Lakshman is the 77th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Lakshman a male or female name?
Lakshman 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.
What does the name Lakshman mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘having auspicious marks’, name of the half-brother and faithful companion of Rama in the Ramayana, regarded as a partial incarnation of Vishnu.
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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, “Lakshman” — the 77th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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