Prasanna
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Prasanna is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: clear; bright; pure; distinct; true; placid; tranquil; soothed; pleased.
- INIndia1 in 9.5K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 59K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 157K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.2K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 241 ●
- 1 in 106K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
210K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
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●
clear; bright; pure; distinct; true; placid; tranquil; soothed; pleased
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 342,844 | 188K rec. | — | 157 | Prasanna | 229 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,979 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Prasanna | 94 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,319 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Prasanna | 66 |
| US United States | — | 1,060 | 15K rec. | 1 in 314K | 1.1K | Prasanna | 241 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 543 | 333 rec. | — | — | Prasanna | 29 |
| CA Canada | — | 415 | 447 rec. | — | — | Prasanna | 46 |
| SG Singapore | — | 260 | 337 rec. | — | — | Prasanna | 43 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 235 | 296 rec. | — | — | Prasanna | 18 |
| DE Germany | — | 229 | 266 rec. | — | — | Prasanna | 49 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #554 | 228 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Prasanna | 40 |
| SE Sweden | — | 96△ | 24 rec. | 1 in 106K | 96 | — | 12 |
| VN Vietnam | — | 77 | 5 rec. | — | — | Prasanna | 8 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi209K43%
- English76K16%
- Telugu57K12%
- Assamese57K12%
- 26K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 209,212 | 43% |
| English | 76,464 | 16% |
| Telugu | 57,223 | 12% |
| Assamese | 57,218 | 12% |
| 25,964 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Prasanna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Krsna (N); Natega (N); Nrsimha (N);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1913 | 1 |
| 1914 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1927 | 3 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 2 |
| 1930 | 3 |
| 1931 | 7 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1933 | 6 |
| 1934 | 4 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 9 |
| 1937 | 4 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 6 |
| 1940 | 6 |
| 1941 | 10 |
| 1942 | 10 |
| 1943 | 9 |
| 1944 | 13 |
| 1945 | 13 |
| 1946 | 12 |
| 1947 | 9 |
| 1948 | 22 |
| 1949 | 15 |
| 1950 | 14 |
| 1951 | 17 |
| 1952 | 17 |
| 1953 | 21 |
| 1954 | 13 |
| 1955 | 20 |
| 1956 | 35 |
| 1957 | 17 |
| 1958 | 29 |
| 1959 | 25 |
| 1960 | 37 |
| 1961 | 26 |
| 1962 | 35 |
| 1963 | 38 |
| 1964 | 39 |
| 1965 | 50 |
| 1966 | 53 |
| 1967 | 32 |
| 1968 | 44 |
| 1969 | 47 |
| 1970 | 44 |
| 1971 | 56 |
| 1972 | 54 |
| 1973 | 44 |
| 1974 | 47 |
| 1975 | 40 |
| 1976 | 52 |
| 1977 | 40 |
| 1978 | 41 |
| 1979 | 50 |
| 1980 | 51 |
| 1981 | 67 |
| 1982 | 49 |
| 1983 | 59 |
| 1984 | 61 |
| 1985 | 47 |
| 1986 | 54 |
| 1987 | 61 |
| 1988 | 57 |
| 1989 | 63 |
| 1990 | 54 |
| 1991 | 50 |
| 1992 | 83 |
| 1993 | 55 |
| 1994 | 56 |
| 1995 | 42 |
| 1996 | 34 |
| 1997 | 38 |
| 1998 | 33 |
| 1999 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 |
| 2012 | 3 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 89 years between 1913–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Rajendra Prasannab. 1956INIndian musician
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 26 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 223 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Prasanna?
- We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Prasanna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Prasanna have the most bearers?
- Prasanna is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled prasanna.
- How common is Prasanna compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Prasanna is the 554th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Prasanna a male or female name?
- Prasanna is a female 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 Prasanna mean?
- Recorded meaning: clear; bright; pure; distinct; true; placid; tranquil; soothed; pleased
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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, “Prasanna” — the 554th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.