Singha
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Singha is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Thai beer.
- GYGuyana1 in 39◐
- TTTrinidad & Tobago1 in 51
- INIndia1 in 95
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14M ●
- #14 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 500 ●
- 1 in 39 ◐
across 10 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
24M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Singh in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 22 more, ซึง in KR South Korea, สิงห์ in TH Thailand and Сингх in RU Russia.
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●
Thai beer
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language 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 | #3 | 13,918,756 | 22M rec. | 1 in 95 | 14M | Singh | 390 |
| GB United Kingdom | #42 | 256,934 | 114K rec. | — | listed | Singh | 245 |
| MY Malaysia | #15 | 141,757 | 148K rec. | — | — | Singh | 148 |
| AU Australia | #29 | 124,582 | 155K rec. | — | 1 | Singh | 275 |
| US United States | #160 | 116,749 | 1.3M rec. | 1 in 2.8K | 164K | Singh | 500 |
| CA Canada | #16 | 106,538 | 112K rec. | — | 1 | Singh | 231 |
| BD Bangladesh | #260 | 73,479 | 2K rec. | — | — | Singha | 59 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #2 | 28,534 | 649 rec. | — | — | Singh | 52 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #4 | 27,581 | 24K rec. | — | — | Singh | 157 |
| ZA South Africa | #52 | 27,156 | 26K rec. | — | — | Singh | 119 |
| ES Spain | #260 | 26,813 | 42K rec. | 1 in 1.9K | 27K | Singh | 114 |
| DE Germany | #316 | 23,657 | 24K rec. | — | 1 | Singh | 190 |
Roughly 14M people in India bear this name (about 1 in 95). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi450K53%
- 241K28%
- Bangla67K8%
- English56K7%
- Sinhala20K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 450,438 | 53% |
| 241,147 | 28% | |
| Bangla | 67,424 | 8% |
| English | 56,264 | 7% |
| Sinhala | 19,599 | 2% |
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●
Singha 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 kaw, lion
as a wordkaikki.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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 4 |
| 1929 | 2 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 2 |
| 1938 | 2 |
| 1939 | 8 |
| 1940 | 6 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 4 |
| 1943 | 4 |
| 1944 | 4 |
| 1945 | 3 |
| 1946 | 4 |
| 1947 | 3 |
| 1948 | 1 |
| 1949 | 11 |
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1951 | 7 |
| 1952 | 9 |
| 1953 | 2 |
| 1954 | 9 |
| 1955 | 9 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 12 |
| 1959 | 10 |
| 1960 | 18 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 12 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 9 |
| 1965 | 7 |
| 1966 | 8 |
| 1967 | 8 |
| 1968 | 14 |
| 1969 | 12 |
| 1970 | 11 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 12 |
| 1974 | 12 |
| 1975 | 13 |
| 1976 | 14 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 12 |
| 1980 | 14 |
| 1981 | 11 |
| 1982 | 16 |
| 1983 | 18 |
| 1984 | 12 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 11 |
| 1987 | 13 |
| 1988 | 4 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 4 |
| 1995 | 3 |
| 1996 | 2 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 78 years between 1923–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Purandar Singhab. 1807chaopha Swargadeo of Ahom Kingdom
- Jeet Singh Sitalb. 1911not in their usual nameauthor (1911-1987)
- Rosalind Singha Angb. 1939MYbadminton player
- Kishor Bahadur Singhab. 1948NPbadminton player
- Achintya Singhab. 1977INIndian physicist (1977-)
- Sonya Singhab. 1994THThai actress
- Gourab Singhab. 2003BDbadminton player
- Mangal Singhab. 2003BDbadminton player
- Shamita SinghaINIndian model
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 166 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Singha?
- We estimate roughly 14 million people bear Singha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Singha have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 14 million people bear Singha in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled singh.
- Where is Singha most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Singha is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 39 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Singha compared with other names?
- In India, Singha is the 3rd most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Singha mean?
- Recorded meaning: Thai beer
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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, “Singha” — the 3rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.