{
  "id": "lk-surnames",
  "name": "Sri Lanka — Popular Surnames",
  "title": "Sri Lanka — Popular Surnames",
  "description": "Most common family names (surnames) reported in Sri Lanka, ranked by frequency, with localized and romanized spellings and population counts where available. Compiled from Wikipedia 'Lists of most common surnames' (accessed Jul 2023) via the sigpwned/popular-names-by-country-dataset project.",
  "category": "geography",
  "source": "https://github.com/sigpwned/popular-names-by-country-dataset",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/sigpwned/popular-names-by-country-dataset",
  "updated": "2026-04",
  "record_count": 50,
  "columns": [
    {
      "key": "id",
      "label": "Id",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "rank",
      "label": "Rank",
      "type": "number"
    },
    {
      "key": "localized",
      "label": "Localized",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "romanized",
      "label": "Romanized",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "count",
      "label": "Count",
      "type": "number"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "id": "LK-1",
      "rank": 1,
      "localized": "Perera",
      "romanized": "Perera",
      "count": 862080
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-2",
      "rank": 2,
      "localized": "Fernando",
      "romanized": "Fernando",
      "count": 520965
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-3",
      "rank": 3,
      "localized": "de Silva",
      "romanized": "de Silva",
      "count": 299772
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-4",
      "rank": 4,
      "localized": "Bandara",
      "romanized": "Bandara",
      "count": 227388
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-5",
      "rank": 5,
      "localized": "Kumara",
      "romanized": "Kumara",
      "count": 201695
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-6",
      "rank": 6,
      "localized": "Dissanayake",
      "romanized": "Dissanayake",
      "count": 172612
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-7",
      "rank": 7,
      "localized": "Mohamed",
      "romanized": "Mohamed",
      "count": 154874
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-8",
      "rank": 8,
      "localized": "Gamage",
      "romanized": "Gamage",
      "count": 149527
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-9",
      "rank": 9,
      "localized": "Liyanage",
      "romanized": "Liyanage",
      "count": 143854
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-10",
      "rank": 10,
      "localized": "Jayasinghe",
      "romanized": "Jayasinghe",
      "count": 142224
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-11",
      "rank": 11,
      "localized": "Ranasinghe",
      "romanized": "Ranasinghe",
      "count": 139680
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-12",
      "rank": 12,
      "localized": "Herath",
      "romanized": "Herath",
      "count": 123182
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-13",
      "rank": 13,
      "localized": "Weerasinghe",
      "romanized": "Weerasinghe",
      "count": 122008
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-14",
      "rank": 14,
      "localized": "Peiris",
      "romanized": "Peiris",
      "count": 115944
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-15",
      "rank": 15,
      "localized": "Rathnayake",
      "romanized": "Rathnayake",
      "count": 102902
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-16",
      "rank": 16,
      "localized": "Wickramasinghe",
      "romanized": "Wickramasinghe",
      "count": 96968
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-17",
      "rank": 17,
      "localized": "Wijesinghe",
      "romanized": "Wijesinghe",
      "count": 94816
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-18",
      "rank": 18,
      "localized": "Hettiarachchi",
      "romanized": "Hettiarachchi",
      "count": 87512
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-19",
      "rank": 19,
      "localized": "Nanayakkara",
      "romanized": "Nanayakkara",
      "count": 78057
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-20",
      "rank": 20,
      "localized": "Ahamed",
      "romanized": "Ahamed",
      "count": 74601
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-21",
      "rank": 21,
      "localized": "Rajapaksha",
      "romanized": "Rajapaksha",
      "count": 71144
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-22",
      "rank": 22,
      "localized": "Mendis",
      "romanized": "Mendis",
      "count": 70623
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-23",
      "rank": 23,
      "localized": "Pathirana",
      "romanized": "Pathirana",
      "count": 70297
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-24",
      "rank": 24,
      "localized": "Ekanayake",
      "romanized": "Ekanayake",
      "count": 69840
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-25",
      "rank": 25,
      "localized": "Gunasekara",
      "romanized": "Gunasekara",
      "count": 69384
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-26",
      "rank": 26,
      "localized": "Dias",
      "romanized": "Dias",
      "count": 67623
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-27",
      "rank": 27,
      "localized": "Sampath",
      "romanized": "Sampath",
      "count": 67232
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-28",
      "rank": 28,
      "localized": "Amarasinghe",
      "romanized": "Amarasinghe",
      "count": 64949
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-29",
      "rank": 29,
      "localized": "Ratnayake",
      "romanized": "Ratnayake",
      "count": 59863
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-30",
      "rank": 30,
      "localized": "Chathuranga",
      "romanized": "Chathuranga",
      "count": 58754
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-31",
      "rank": 31,
      "localized": "Senanayake",
      "romanized": "Senanayake",
      "count": 55037
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-32",
      "rank": 32,
      "localized": "Samarasinghe",
      "romanized": "Samarasinghe",
      "count": 54320
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-33",
      "rank": 33,
      "localized": "Lakmal",
      "romanized": "Lakmal",
      "count": 53733
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-34",
      "rank": 34,
      "localized": "Munasinghe",
      "romanized": "Munasinghe",
      "count": 52755
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-35",
      "rank": 35,
      "localized": "Rodrigo",
      "romanized": "Rodrigo",
      "count": 51777
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-36",
      "rank": 36,
      "localized": "Seneviratne",
      "romanized": "Seneviratne",
      "count": 51581
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-37",
      "rank": 37,
      "localized": "Rathnayaka",
      "romanized": "Rathnayaka",
      "count": 49886
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-38",
      "rank": 38,
      "localized": "Edirisinghe",
      "romanized": "Edirisinghe",
      "count": 48516
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-39",
      "rank": 39,
      "localized": "Jayawardena",
      "romanized": "Jayawardena",
      "count": 48386
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-40",
      "rank": 40,
      "localized": "Fonseka",
      "romanized": "Fonseka",
      "count": 47995
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-41",
      "rank": 41,
      "localized": "Sanjeewa",
      "romanized": "Sanjeewa",
      "count": 47147
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-42",
      "rank": 42,
      "localized": "Gunawardana",
      "romanized": "Gunawardana",
      "count": 46625
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-43",
      "rank": 43,
      "localized": "Gunawardena",
      "romanized": "Gunawardena",
      "count": 45386
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-44",
      "rank": 44,
      "localized": "Karunaratne",
      "romanized": "Karunaratne",
      "count": 44930
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-45",
      "rank": 45,
      "localized": "Jayaweera",
      "romanized": "Jayaweera",
      "count": 43495
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-46",
      "rank": 46,
      "localized": "Jayasekara",
      "romanized": "Jayasekara",
      "count": 43365
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-47",
      "rank": 47,
      "localized": "Ranaweera",
      "romanized": "Ranaweera",
      "count": 42387
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-48",
      "rank": 48,
      "localized": "Jayawardana",
      "romanized": "Jayawardana",
      "count": 40822
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-49",
      "rank": 49,
      "localized": "Jayasuriya",
      "romanized": "Jayasuriya",
      "count": 40561
    },
    {
      "id": "LK-50",
      "rank": 50,
      "localized": "Madusanka",
      "romanized": "Madusanka",
      "count": 40300
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "title": "Sri Lanka — Popular Surnames - Free Download",
    "description": "Most common family names (surnames) reported in Sri Lanka, ranked by frequency, with localized and romanized spellings and population counts where available. Compiled from Wikipedia 'Lists of most common surnames' (accessed Jul 2023) via the sigpwned/popular-names-by-country-dataset project. Contains 50 records. Download in Excel, CSV, PDF formats.",
    "seo_title": "Sri Lanka — Popular Surnames | ListBase",
    "seo_description": "Download Sri Lanka — Popular Surnames dataset with 50 records. Available in Excel, CSV, PDF formats.",
    "key_takeaways": [
      "Contains 50 records with 5 fields",
      "Available for free download in Excel, CSV, and PDF formats",
      "Data sourced from https://github.com/sigpwned/popular-names-by-country-dataset"
    ]
  }
}