Lakshmana

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Lakshmana 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: The younger brother of Rāma, an avatar of Shesha.

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, Lakshman in CA Canada, SA Saudi Arabia, AE United Arab Emirates and 5 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●

The younger brother of Rāma, an avatar of Shesha.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

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

Where Lakshmana 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●

  • Hindi142K47%
  • 55K18%
  • English32K11%
  • Telugu31K10%
  • Assamese31K10%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi141,60947%
55,39218%
English32,08511%
Telugu30,59710%
Assamese30,59610%

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◐

Lakshmana is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name64K records spelled Lakshmana2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Lakshmaṇa

35 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●

05001K1.5K1900192019401960198020001.2K · 1993

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Lakshmana in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
18993
19141
19151
19164
19171
19183
19195
19207
19213
19227
192314
192410
192514
192617
192711
192831
192950
193023
193133
193272
193353
1934105
193571
193683
1937121
1938122
1939172
1940132
1941157
1942268
1943209
1944312
1945249
1946289
1947326
1948320
1949375
1950298
1951405
1952483
1953385
1954507
1955399
1956512
1957536
1958588
1959692
1960622
1961644
1962859
1963713
1964854
1965741
1966911
1967852
1968879
1969849
1970880
1971870
19721,021
1973960
1974840
1975851
19761,110
1977885
1978879
1979813
1980840
1981812
1982951
1983970
19841,029
1985968
1986926
19871,016
1988942
19891,011
1990933
19911,078
19921,189
19931,215
19941,012
1995924
1996466
1997416
1998293
19996
20001
200839
201012
201113
20125
20139
201476
201556

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 95 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Lakshmana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—31K#191
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19931.2K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19921.2K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—1.2K#3,364
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19761.1K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19911.1K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19841K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19721K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19871K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19941K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19891K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1983970—

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 190 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lakshmana?
We estimate roughly 778 people bear Lakshmana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Lakshmana have the most bearers?
Lakshmana is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled laxman.
How common is Lakshmana compared with other names?
In India, Lakshmana is the 77th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Lakshmana a male or female name?
Lakshmana 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 Lakshmana mean?
Recorded meaning: The younger brother of Rāma, an avatar of Shesha.
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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, “Lakshmana” — the 77th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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