Sunitha
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sunitha is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Indra (५); a Rsi (M); name of many men.
- INIndia1 in 213◐
- GYGuyana1 in 1.3K
- THThailand1 in 11K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈35K ●
- #125 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 266 ●
- 1 in 329 ◐
across 10 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
3.0M records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Sunita in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 19 more, Sanita in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, LV Latvia and 1 more, สุนิตา in TH Thailand and Санита 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●
Indra (५); a Rsi (M); name of many men
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #4 | 15,288,208 | 2.9M rec. | — | 230 | Sunita | 220 |
| BR Brazil | — | 17,650△ | 394 rec. | 1 in 12K | 23K | Sanita | 44 |
| TH Thailand | — | 12,965 | 6.7K rec. | — | #670,221 | สุนิตา | 89 |
| US United States | — | 9,668 | 47K rec. | 1 in 34K | 9.7K | Sunita | 266 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,334 | 4.1K rec. | — | 3 | Sunita | 98 |
| LV Latvia | #886 | 5,721△ | 378 rec. | 1 in 329 | 5.7K | Sanita | 28 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 3,457 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Sunita | 44 |
| AU Australia | — | 3,108 | 2.8K rec. | — | 1 | Sunita | 83 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,675 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Sunita | 65 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,287△ | 221 rec. | 1 in 39K | 1.6K | Sunita | 21 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,211 | 328 rec. | — | listed | Sunita | 64 |
| RU Russia | — | 1,202 | 786 rec. | — | #2,484 | Санита | 73 |
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Languages●
- Hindi140K26%
- English126K23%
- Telugu116K22%
- Assamese116K22%
- Sinhala17K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 140,447 | 26% |
| English | 126,340 | 23% |
| Telugu | 116,349 | 22% |
| Assamese | 116,346 | 22% |
| Sinhala | 16,994 | 3% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 19 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 22 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 10 years between 2011–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 116K | #26 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6.2K | #428 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,787 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 632 | #820 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 37 | #514 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 33 | #58,079 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #18,213 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #16,705 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 19 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 17 | #32,469 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 48 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sunitha?
- We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Sunitha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sunitha have the most bearers?
- Sunitha is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sunita.
- How common is Sunitha compared with other names?
- In India, Sunitha is the 4th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Sunitha a male or female name?
- Sunitha is a female 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.
- What does the name Sunitha mean?
- Recorded meaning: Indra (५); a Rsi (M); name of many men
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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, “Sunitha” — the 4th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.