Sankara
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sankara is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 9th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script.
- INIndia1 in 376◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 17K
- AUAustralia1 in 59K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.7K ●
- #273 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 269 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
2.8M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shankar in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 21 more.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #9 | 8,652,691 | 2.7M rec. | — | 1.1M | Shankar | 257 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 3,791 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Shankar | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,355 | 2.5K rec. | — | listed | Shankar | 86 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 2,152 | 77 rec. | — | — | Shankar | 27 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,975 | 3.8K rec. | — | 1 | Shankar | 99 |
| US United States | — | 1,350 | 42K rec. | 1 in 246K | 3.3K | Shankar | 269 |
| BD Bangladesh | #937 | 790 | 455 rec. | — | — | Shankar | 40 |
| CA Canada | — | 690 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Shankar | 65 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 447 | 718 rec. | — | — | Shankar | 33 |
| NP Nepal | — | 435 | 1.3K rec. | — | 4 | Shankar | 61 |
| SG Singapore | — | 327 | 561 rec. | — | — | Shankar | 30 |
| DE Germany | — | 314 | 537 rec. | — | 1 | Shankar | 56 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi82K46%
- English28K16%
- Assamese25K14%
- Telugu25K14%
- 5.4K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 81,886 | 46% |
| English | 28,070 | 16% |
| Assamese | 24,864 | 14% |
| Telugu | 24,863 | 14% |
| 5,356 | 3% |
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●
Sankara 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.
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Lielbritānijā (Sanquhar), Skotijā, Nitas kreisajā krastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Thomas Sankarab. 1949BFPresident of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987
- Mariam Sankarab. 1953BFpolitician
- Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankarab. 1959BFBurkinabe politician
- Odile Sankarab. 1963BFBurkinabè filmmaker
- Mamadou Sankarab. 1995NGassociation football player
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 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 · 141 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sankara?
- We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Sankara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sankara have the most bearers?
- Sankara is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shankar.
- How common is Sankara compared with other names?
- In India, Sankara is the 9th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Sankara a male or female name?
- Sankara 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/sankaraThe 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, “Sankara” — the 9th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.