Sen

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sen is a surname, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 92nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Orthographic variation im Auslaut: ss vs.

rarermore common
  • YEYemen1 in 15◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 282
  • TRTürkiye1 in 416

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

≈258K ●

across 9 countries

#444 ●

of 16M given names

12 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
408 ●

4.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 250 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

SoniLatin · Hindi●1.8M records
СанияCyrillic · Russian●144K records
선아Hangul · Korean●37K records
ᲡონაGeorgian · Georgian●2.6K records
สุนาThai · Thai●2.4K records
שאנהHebrew · Hebrew●371 records
ՍոնաArmenian · Armenian●228 records
সানBengali · Bangla●24 records
సనTelugu · Telugu●1 records
ΣοναGreek · Greek●1 records
ਸੁਨGurmukhi · Punjabi●1 records
සේනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

21 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sana in FR France, PK Pakistan, ES Spain and 2 more, Shauna in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia and 1 more, Jona in PH Philippines, FI Finland, BR Brazil and 1 more and Сания in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.

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●

Orthographic variation im Auslaut: ss vs. ß nach Konsonant; 14+74 Belege.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Sen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#924,416,5151.9M rec.—218KSoni273
TR Türkiye#321877,312953K rec.—#94Şen103
YE Yemen—267,173236 rec.——Sanaa14
RU Russia#243175,13157K rec.—#122Сания127
US United States#433164,680957K rec.1 in 2K165KShauna408
TH Thailand#119148,56785K rec.—#92,533สุนีย์128
NG Nigeria#39117,517129K rec.—listedSani76
GB United Kingdom#39870,08358K rec.—36Shona159
PK Pakistan#9159,5828.3K rec.—listedSana113
KR South Korea#20557,05229K rec.—1M선아146
PH Philippines#56839,36234K rec.—32KJona74
CZ Czechia#11137,906△2.7K rec.1 in 28238KSona95

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi1.2M56%
  • 495K24%
  • Bangla185K9%
  • English119K6%
  • German13K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi1,171,61756%
495,02224%
Bangla185,3269%
English118,5606%
German12,6391%

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◐

Sen is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname503K records spelled Sen14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye, China

    Also written Şen, Sen', Sén, Šen, Sēn

  • Bangla surname195K records spelled Sen20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Bangla, Assamese, Odia

    Also written সেন, Sena, Senu, Şen, সেনু

  • English surname155K records spelled Sen58 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Germany, United States

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Şen, Ş'En, Sën, Sęn, Sén

  • Indonesian surname18K records spelled Sen13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Türkiye

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Şen, Sëñ, Şëņ, Šĕň, Şën

  • a separate surname6.9K records spelled Sen23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Şen, Sëñ, Sên, Sến, Sèñ

  • Khmer surname6.2K records spelled Sen6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Netherlands, Cambodia

    Also written Şen, Seṅ, Sèn, Sën, Sên

57 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●

Sen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Self.

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

  • In English, Hindu surname from Sanskrit sena ('army').

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

  • In Vietnamese, Lotus

    as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)

  • Dustbin, garbage pail; nick-name

    as a nameA Handbook of African Names

  • Hada del bosque

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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●

02550751001920194019601980200085 · 1970

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Sen in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1901–2015
Yearrecords
19011
19189
19191
19202
19213
19221
19243
19254
19263
19273
19283
19293
19303
19315
193210
19337
19348
193511
19363
19378
193810
19398
194015
194112
194212
194315
194415
194512
194618
194715
194821
194928
195019
195124
195217
195330
195431
195537
195628
195727
195845
195939
196046
196137
196244
196341
196453
196565
196646
196755
196864
196957
197085
197162
197273
197364
197472
197585
197668
197763
197865
197959
198082
198171
198268
198350
198458
198573
198669
198762
198861
198954
199053
199153
199240
199346
199456
199543
199619
199731
199811
20084
20093
20104
201117
20126
201316
20143
201515

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 89 years between 1901–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

0500100015002000Sun Quan, b. 182Sun Tzu, b. 544Sun Yat-sen, b. 1866Mrinal Sen, b. 1923Amartya Sen, b. 1933Aparna Sen, b. 1945Masayoshi Son, b. 1957Nandana Sen, b. 1967Sushmita Sen, b. 1975Stefanie Sun, b. 1978
  • Sun Quanb. 182CNnot in their usual nameEmperor of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period
  • Sun Tzub. 544CNnot in their usual name6th century BCE Chinese general and military strategist
  • Sun Yat-senb. 1866CNChinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
  • Mrinal Senb. 1923INIndian film director (1923–2018)
  • Amartya Senb. 1933INIndian economist and philosopher (1933-)
  • Aparna Senb. 1945INIndian filmmaker, script writer and actress
  • Masayoshi Sonb. 1957JPnot in their usual nameJapanese businessman
  • Nandana Senb. 1967USAmerican actress
  • Sushmita Senb. 1975INIndian actress (1975-present)
  • Stefanie Sunb. 1978SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean singer

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 65 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Sen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—218K#105
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.2K#7,628
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.1K#10,491
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#14,044
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020944#8,357
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020796#8,357
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—658#2,199
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024636#1,995
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—571#7,180
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—571#7,174
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008518#2,894
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—254#30,240

Reference works 4

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

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sen?
We estimate roughly 258 thousand people bear Sen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Sen have the most bearers?
Sen is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled soni.
How common is Sen compared with other names?
In India, Sen is the 92nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Sen mean?
Recorded meaning: Orthographic variation im Auslaut: ss vs.
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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, “Sen” — the 92nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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