Persaud
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Persaud is a surname, with more bearers in Guyana than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and English (Guyana), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Different form of Prasad.
- GYGuyana1 in 35◐
- JMJamaica1 in 857
- CACanada1 in 7.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈34K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 319 ●
- 1 in 35 ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
128K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
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●
Different form of Prasad.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | #1 | 21,639 | 18K rec. | 1 in 35 | 22K | Persaud | 32 |
| US United States | — | 11,956 | 88K rec. | 1 in 28K | 13K | Persaud | 319 |
| CA Canada | #668 | 9,537 | 8.9K rec. | — | — | Persaud | 133 |
| JM Jamaica | #24 | 5,595 | 5.8K rec. | — | — | Persaud | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,516 | 2K rec. | — | — | Persaud | 84 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,372 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Persaud | 17 |
| AU Australia | — | 638 | 608 rec. | — | — | Persaud | 39 |
| AR Argentina | — | 500 | 499 rec. | — | — | Persaud | 3 |
| RU Russia | — | 240 | 261 rec. | — | — | Persaud | 5 |
| MA Morocco | — | 145 | 152 rec. | — | — | Persaud | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | 101 | 89 rec. | — | — | Persaud | 31 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 98 | 564 rec. | 1 in 176K | 98 | Persaud | 25 |
Roughly 22K people in Guyana bear this name (about 1 in 35). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English175K78%
- English (Guyana)15K7%
- French13K6%
- Spanish5.6K3%
- 3.4K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 174,832 | 78% |
| English (Guyana) | 14,959 | 7% |
| French | 13,085 | 6% |
| Spanish | 5,623 | 3% |
| 3,390 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Lakshmi Persaudb. 1939Trinidadian writer (1939–2024)
- John Derek Persaudb. 1956JMGuyanese-born Jamaican Roman Catholic bishop of Mandeville
- Deborah Persaudb. 1960GYSouth America-born American virologist
- Raj Persaudb. 1963GBBritish psychiatrist and broadcaster
- Ingrid Persaudb. 1966TTTrinidad and Tobago writer, artist, academic (1966-)
- Ramona Persaudb. 1971GYGuyanese filmmaker and photographer
- Anjulieb. 1983CAnot in their usual nameCanadian musician
- Nikkita Persaudb. 1990CAGuyanese footballer
- Mark M PersaudGYCanadian lawyer, entrepreneur, civic leader, & public figure
- Vindhya Vasini PersaudGYpolitician in Guyana
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | This page provides an overview of Guyanese surnames, focusing on their origins, significance, and frequency, published b | 2026 | 22K | #1 |
| GY Guyana | This page lists the most common surnames in Guyana. | 2023 | 22K | #1 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 22K | #1 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #3,000 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.6K | #3,766 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 98 | #19,357 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 86 | #99 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 52 | #102,017 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 24 | #570 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 23 | — |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 18 | #205 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 45 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Persaud?
- We estimate roughly 34 thousand people bear Persaud (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Persaud have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Persaud in Guyana, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled persaud.
- Where is Persaud most common?
- Persaud is densest in Guyana, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 people carrying it.
- How common is Persaud compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Persaud is the most common surname of 18,119 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Persaud mean?
- Recorded meaning: Different form of Prasad.
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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, “Persaud” — the most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.