Sarat

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Suraj in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 15 more, Sarath in LK Sri Lanka, AR Argentina, IT Italy, Surya in SG Singapore, FI Finland and สุรัตน์ in TH Thailand.

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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Sarat is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name24K records spelled Sarat2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Śarat

• French given name718 records spelled Sarat2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, India, United States

  Also written Saraẗ

• Russian given name105 records spelled Sarat16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, India, United States, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Сарат, Sarath, Саррат, Саратх, Sarrat

34 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●

Sarat is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In zlm, heavily laden; of full burden; of a ship full of cargo; of a camel with a heavy load of provisions; of a woman heavy with child

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In iba, heavily laden, fully loaded, deep in the water (of boats with little freeboard)

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Hungarian, accusative singular of sár

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Filipino, flat; snub (of one's nose)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Finnish, nominative plural of sara

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In tsg, token, mark, indication

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 79 years between 1922–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyayb. 1876INBengali novelist and short story writer (1876-1938)
• Sarat Pujarib. 1934INIndian actor
• Sarat Maharajb. 1951ZASouth African writer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 173 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sarat?

We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Sarat (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Sarat have the most bearers?

Sarat is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled suraj.

How common is Sarat compared with other names?

In India, Sarat is the 72nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Sarat a male or female name?

Sarat 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.