Prasad

surname · English · Latin script

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

Prasad is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common surname. It appears chiefly in and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘brightness’; also ‘the grace of God’, denoting especially the offerings made to a deity and then distributed to the worshippers.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 1.5K◐
  • INIndia1 in 1.7K
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 3.5K

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

≈810K ●

across 10 countries

#202 ●

of 21M surnames

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
344 ●

4.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.5K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

PrasadLatin · Hindi●6.1M records
প্রসাদBengali · Bangla●3.5K records
ประสาดThai · Thai●47 records
ప్రసాదTelugu · Telugu●1 records
ପ୍ରସାଦOdia · Odia●1 records

Locally spelled Prasat in TH Thailand and Prosad in ZA South Africa.

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: ‘brightness’; also ‘the grace of God’, denoting especially the offerings made to a deity and then distributed to the worshippers.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Prasad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#28800,3494.1M rec.1 in 1.7K800KPrasad298
AU Australia#56514,40218K rec.—1Prasad162
US United States—8,638129K rec.1 in 39K10KPrasad344
GB United Kingdom—7,7457.2K rec.—listedPrasad114
MY Malaysia#4916,8902.5K rec.——Prasad48
CA Canada—5,2936.2K rec.——Prasad120
NZ New Zealand#2492,1412K rec.——Prasad90
SG Singapore#6321,0321.6K rec.——Prasad65
LK Sri Lanka#1919015.7K rec.——Prasad62
DE Germany—8371.1K rec.——Prasad81
ID Indonesia—7941.4K rec.——Prasad48
TH Thailand—694578 rec.——Prasat39

Roughly 800K people in India bear this name (about 1 in 1.7K). 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●

  • 7.8M54%
  • Hindi6.1M42%
  • English177K1%
  • Bangla107K1%
  • Indonesian77K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
7,793,96454%
Hindi6,063,17542%
English177,0081%
Bangla107,1791%
Indonesian77,4791%

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◐

Prasad is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname8.9M records spelled Prasad3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Prasad', Prasād

  • Spanish surname32K records spelled Prasad5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian

    Also written Prasād, Prasád

  • Nepali surname23K records spelled Prasad2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nepal, Malaysia, United Kingdom

  • Malayalam surname13K records spelled Prasad18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada

    Also written Prasaada, Prasath, പ്രസാദ്, பிரசாத், Prasād

  • Polish surname5.0K records spelled Prasad8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, United States, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Přáşàď, Pŕášád, Prâsãd, Prâšâd, Prašād

50 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.

Other recorded senses●

Prasad is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Hindu name from Sanskrit prasdda, 'favour, gift'.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In mfe, a type of food that is served as a religious offering in both Hinduism and Sikhism

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Food used as a religious offering.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020040060080019201940196019802000796 · 1975

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Prasad in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1912–2017
Yearrecords
19121
19161
19171
191811
19192
19206
19213
19229
192311
19249
192510
192613
192710
192819
192927
193021
193135
193241
193348
193451
193558
193667
193767
1938123
193995
1940103
1941126
1942124
1943176
1944176
1945209
1946185
1947214
1948204
1949181
1950290
1951281
1952251
1953270
1954316
1955379
1956285
1957305
1958437
1959384
1960435
1961385
1962452
1963472
1964442
1965597
1966436
1967499
1968601
1969516
1970742
1971518
1972684
1973608
1974611
1975796
1976652
1977595
1978738
1979639
1980707
1981608
1982646
1983517
1984573
1985574
1986498
1987506
1988458
1989435
1990415
1991377
1992340
1993347
1994326
1995261
1996146
1997138
199856
19998
20012
200837
20096
201023
201162
201243
201396
201446
201566
20161
20172

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 96 years between 1912–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Rajendra Prasad, b. 1884Brajeshwar Prasad, b. 1911Harikeval Prasad, b. 1940Rajendra Prasad, b. 1956Eswar Prasad, b. 1965Vinaya Prasad, b. 1966Monica Prasad, b. 1971Venkat Gaurav Prasad, b. 1985Vivek Prasad, b. 2000

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 46 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Prasad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—800K#33
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—267K#6
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—55K#25
FJ FijiThe page provides insights into the most common Fijian surnames and their cultural significance, published by the Instit202636K#2
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202010K#3,390
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020108.6K#4,107
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020006.2K#5,172
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.1K#7,266
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1975796—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1970742—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1978738—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1980707—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 280 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Prasad?
We estimate roughly 810 thousand people bear Prasad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Prasad have the most bearers?
We estimate about 800 thousand people bear Prasad in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled prasad.
How common is Prasad compared with other names?
In India, Prasad is the 28th most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Prasad mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘brightness’; also ‘the grace of God’, denoting especially the offerings made to a deity and then distributed to the worshippers.
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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, “Prasad” — the 28th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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