Santhosh
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Santhosh is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A male given name from India, of Indian usage.
- INIndia1 in 378◐
- LALaos1 in 700
- AOAngola1 in 1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈67K ●
- #274 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 276 ●
- 1 in 1.2K ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
3.2M records
Official registry-verified
Ecuador
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Santosh in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 8 more, Santos in PE Peru, ES Spain, LA Laos and 6 more and Santush in PK Pakistan.
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●
A male given name from India, of Indian usage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #10 | 8,598,855 | 3.1M rec. | — | 4K | Santosh | 273 |
| US United States | — | 34,296 | 65K rec. | 1 in 9.7K | 144K | Santosh | 276 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 14,058△ | 115 rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 27K | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 9,632 | 7.9K rec. | 1 in 5.2K | 85K | Santos | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8,102 | 4.9K rec. | — | — | Santosh | 96 |
| LA Laos | — | 7,046 | 37 rec. | — | — | Santos | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6,134△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 35K | 9.6K | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | 4,855 | 4.2K rec. | — | — | Santos | 46 |
| TH Thailand | — | 4,678 | 2.8K rec. | — | #173,952 | Santos | 89 |
| PE Peru | — | 4,599 | 5.4K rec. | — | 128K | Santos | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,581 | 4.9K rec. | — | 1 | Santosh | 101 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 4,264 | 2K rec. | — | 58 | Santosh | 35 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi235K52%
- English62K14%
- Telugu48K11%
- Assamese48K11%
- 16K4%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 235,182 | 52% |
| English | 61,616 | 14% |
| Telugu | 47,613 | 11% |
| Assamese | 47,612 | 11% |
| 16,437 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2011 | 17 |
| 2012 | 16 |
| 2013 | 18 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 18 |
| 2017 | 28 |
| 2018 | 30 |
| 2019 | 35 |
| 2020 | 35 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 12 years between 2009–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Rakshitha Sree Santhosh Ramrajb. 2007INbadminton 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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 48K | #111 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5.4K | #131 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 4K | #1,860 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,819 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 605 | #39,285 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 212 | #87,663 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 70 | #2,664 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 64 | #11,620 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 62 | #2,688 |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON) | — | 58 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 40 | #13,612 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 35 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 75 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Santhosh?
- We estimate roughly 67 thousand people bear Santhosh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Santhosh have the most bearers?
- Santhosh is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled santosh.
- How common is Santhosh compared with other names?
- In India, Santhosh is the 10th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Santhosh a male or female name?
- Santhosh is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Santhosh mean?
- Recorded meaning: A male given name from India, of Indian usage.
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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, “Santhosh” — the 10th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.