Nishantha
given name · Sinhala · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nishantha is a given name, most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Sinhala and English, written in the Latin script.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 856◐
- NZNew Zealand1 in 306K
- ITItaly1 in 340K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 63 ●
- 1 in 3.5M ◐
across 2 countries
recorded for this name
5.3K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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
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 | #47 | 1,672 | 4.6K rec. | — | — | Nishantha | 63 |
| US United States | — | 310 | 294 rec. | — | — | Nishantha | 56 |
| IN India | — | 181 | 64 rec. | — | listed | Nishantha | 18 |
| IT Italy | — | 149 | 209 rec. | — | — | Nishantha | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 100 | 20 rec. | — | — | Nishantha | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 28 | 27 rec. | — | — | Nishantha | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 12 | 16 rec. | — | — | Nishantha | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 11 | 0 rec. | — | — | Nishantha | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 9 | — | 1 in 4.3M | 9 | — | — |
| IL Israel | — | 8 | 10 rec. | — | — | Nishantha | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 3 rec. | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | Nishantha | 5 |
| CL Chile | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Sinhala2.4K61%
- English76820%
- Arabic1604%
- Hindi1253%
- Japanese882%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Sinhala | 2,396 | 61% |
| English | 768 | 20% |
| Arabic | 160 | 4% |
| Hindi | 125 | 3% |
| Japanese | 88 | 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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 9 | #11,597 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #12,734 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nishantha?
- We estimate roughly 14 people bear Nishantha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nishantha have the most bearers?
- Nishantha is most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is most often spelled nishantha.
- How common is Nishantha compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Nishantha is the 47th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Nishantha a male or female name?
- Nishantha 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nishanthaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Nishantha” — the 47th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.