Tharaka

given name · Sinhala · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tharaka is a given name, most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Sinhala and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 858
  • SGSingapore1 in 1.2M
  • SESweden1 in 2.5M

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

≈4

across 1 country

2

recorded for this name

Sources
66

5.8K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 9.6M

Poland

Spellings & scripts

TharakaLatin · Sinhala1.9K records
තාරකSinhala · Sinhala3 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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.

Where in the world

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

Where Tharaka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka#491,6675.1K rec.Tharaka66
IN India648461 rec.5Tharaka34
US United States9986 rec.Tharaka40
GB United Kingdom5028 rec.Tharaka21
CA Canada1922 rec.Tharaka10
IT Italy1724 rec.Tharaka3
SG Singapore99 rec.Tharaka7
CN China80 rec.Tharaka3
NL Netherlands72 rec.Tharaka4
SE Sweden52 rec.Tharaka5
PL Poland41 in 9.6M4
JP Japanlisted

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

Languages

  • Sinhala1.9K49%
  • English89923%
  • Hindi56114%
  • Japanese1153%
  • Arabic972%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Sinhala1,91549%
English89923%
Hindi56114%
Japanese1153%
Arabic972%

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

Tharaka 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 English, a Bantu language of Kenya

    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.

Evidence

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Tharaka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls13#81,780
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls5#175,640
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20264#22,425
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)3#23,779
IN IndiaIndian names with gender (Kaggle)

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 · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tharaka?
We estimate roughly 4 people bear Tharaka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Tharaka have the most bearers?
Tharaka is most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is most often spelled tharaka.
How common is Tharaka compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Tharaka is the 49th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
Is Tharaka a male or female name?
Tharaka 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.
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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, “Tharaka” — the 49th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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