Avanti
given name · Latin script
Meaning: One of the sixteen great janapadas; capital Ujjenī, also Māhissati; a Buddhist center in the Buddha's time (A.v.46; Vin.i.277; Vin.i.195)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Avanti is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 250K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- USUnited States1 in 590K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Avanti itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Abanti, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Abanti in IN India, BD Bangladesh and Awanthi in LK Sri Lanka.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)One of the sixteen great janapadas; capital Ujjenī, also Māhissati; a Buddhist center in the Buddha's time (A.v.46; Vin.i.277; Vin.i.195).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Avanti counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 24 | Abanti | 103 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Abanti | 8 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #792 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Awanthi | 17 |
| US United States | — | 564 | 1 in 590K | 465 | Avanti | 125 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 642K | — | Avanti | 38 |
| GY Guyana | — | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Avanti 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 pi, Ancient kingdom of western India, one of the three maṇḍalas of Jambudīpa; mentioned in Vin.ii.298-9, M.iii.7, Bu.xxviii.10.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In pi, one of the four great monarchies in the Buddha's time, alongside Magadha, Kosala and Vaṃsa/Vatsa.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In pi, King of Ujjeni in a past age. During his reign the Bodhi¬ satta was born, under the name of Citta, in a Caṇḍāla village outside Ujjeni. His story is related in the Citta-Sambhūta Jātaka.1
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In English, An ancient Indian realm roughly corresponding to the present-day Malwa region.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
the language of Avanti (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Avanti Marianneb. 1990LKSri Lankan 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Avanti mean, and where does it come from?
- One of the sixteen great janapadas; capital Ujjenī, also Māhissati; a Buddhist center in the Buddha's time (A.v.46; Vin.i.277; Vin.i.195). Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
- Is Avanti a male or female name?
- Avanti is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Avanti have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Abanti in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Avanti most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Avanti is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 250 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Avanti?
- In the United States, the national register counted 564 people named Avanti in 2020, about 1 in 590 thousand residents.
- How common is Avanti compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Avanti is the 792nd most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/avantiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Avanti” — the 792nd most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.